Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC)
Website: http://www.hrw.org/
July 15
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Eritrea: Israel Put African Refugees Under Pressure to Leave [press release]
Israeli authorities are using new procedures to pressure at least 1,400 Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers, some detained for over a year, to return to their countries, Human... Read more »
June 20
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Eritrea: 'No Indication Govt Wants to Protect Human Rights' [press release]
Eritrea's human rights situation has not improved since the Council's 2009 Universal Periodic Review. Torture, arbitrary detention, and severe restrictions on freedom of... Read more »
June 05
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Eritrea: 'Govt Among Worst Human Rights Violators in World'
The Eritrean government remains among the worst human rights violators in the world. The report of the Special Rapporteur on Eritrea confirms the patterns of abuses that Human... Read more »
May 31
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Eritrea: NGOs Request Renewal of the Mandate of Human Rights Rapporteur for Eritrea [press release]
Excellencies, Read more »
March 13
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Eritrea: Detained Asylum Seekers Pressured to Leave - Sudanese, Eritreans Threatened With Prolonged or Indefinite Detention [press release]
Saharonim, an immigration detention center where the UN refugee agency says Israel's Ministry of the Interior is detaining over 2,000 mostly Eritrean and Sudanese people. Read more »
January 15
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Eritrea: Mining Companies Warned Against Using Forced Labour
International mining firms rushing to invest in Eritrea's burgeoning minerals sector risk involvement in serious abuses unless they take strong preventive measures. The failure of... Read more »
October 28, 2012
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Egypt: Asylum Seekers Blocked At Border - Eritreans Pushed Back to Egypt, Despite Risk of Abuse [press release]
The Israeli military has since June 2012 prevented dozens of asylum seekers, most of them Eritreans, from crossing Israel's newly constructed fence on its border with Egypt, Human... Read more »
July 06, 2012
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Eritrea: UN Human Rights Council on Eritrea [press release]
The United Nations Human Rights Council took bold action to address the chronically poor human rights situations in Belarus and Eritrea, Human Rights Watch said today, at the... Read more »
June 10, 2012
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Africa: Israel - Amend 'Anti-Infiltration' Law [press release]
The Israeli parliament should immediately repeal or amend a newly revised law that punishes asylum seekers for irregularly crossing into Israel, in violation of their basic rights,... Read more »
November 14, 2011
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Egypt: Don't Deport Eritreans - Rights Group Urges [press release]
The Egyptian authorities are preparing to deport 118 detained Eritreans to Eritrea, where they risk persecution, Human Rights Watch said today. On October 29, 2011, guards at the... Read more »
September 22, 2011
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Eritrea: Free Political Prisoners 10 Years On - President Isaias in New York to Demand UN Respect His Rights, Denies Them to His People [press release]
Ten years after President Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea ordered the detention of 21 senior government members and journalists who criticized him, his government should release the... Read more »
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