MILAN – An overcrowded ship carrying up to 600 people trying to flee Libya sank just outside the port of Tripoli, the U.N. refugee agency said Monday, citing witness accounts. … more
It might have been cold outside, but Eritrean refugee Adam Salim Idris received a warm welcome when he arrived at Cranbrook airport on Monday. … more
Los Angeles residents have hosted a warm welcome diner party to the Eritrean refugee who arrived from Refugee camp Shimbela in northern Tigray Ethiopia on Jan 17-01-2011 at Eritrean restaurant. … more
Thousands of Israelis marched through the streets of Tel Aviv on Friday morning in protest against a government plan to construct a massive detention facility for foreigners infiltrating into Israel via the country’s southern border with Egypt. … more
The European Parliament has passed a resolution on the Eritrean refugees being held hostage by people traffickers in the Sinai Desert, urging the Egyptian authorities to take “all necessary measures” to secure their release, and to allow the UNHCR access to all refugees and asylum seekers in state custody, including … more
Source: Human Rights Watch (HRW) (Geneva, October 8, 2010) – Egypt, the new chair of the UN refugee agency’s governing body, should immediately end its policy of shooting foreign nationals trying to cross from Egypt into Israel, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the Egyptian authorities. … more
By: Ryan Crocker Bereket Yohannes often lies awake at night in his East Kildonan home and wonders where his relatives are or if they’re even alive. … more
Human Rights Concern – Eritrea (HRCE) wishes to express its deep concern and disappointment at the news that the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has been forced to cease all activities in Libya. The Libyan authorities gave no reason for this inhuman decision. … more
Human Rights Concern – Eritrea (HRCE) wishes to express its deep concern and disappointment at the news that the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has been forced to cease all activities in Libya. The Libyan authorities gave no reason for this inhuman decision. … more
Morning breaks over Shimelba refugee camp in northern Ethiopia. The mud brick houses with thatched roofs are home to around 11,000 refugees who have fled from persecution in neighboring Eritrea. Many of the refugees are children and teenagers who now face life growing up in a refugee camp in a … more
Morning breaks over Shimelba refugee camp in northern Ethiopia. The mud brick houses with thatched roofs are home to around 11,000 refugees who have fled from persecution in neighboring Eritrea. Many of the refugees are children and teenagers who now face life growing up in a refugee camp in a … more
An Eritrean refugee and former prisoner has gone into hiding after allegedly receiving a threat from the head of the Eritrean diplomatic mission in Uganda. … more
An Eritrean refugee and former prisoner has gone into hiding after allegedly receiving a threat from the head of the Eritrean diplomatic mission in Uganda. … more
An Eritrean refugee in Halifax killed himself in late February after losing an asylum appeal to Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board. Habtom Kibraeb, 40, was found dead, hanging from a tree in the Clayton Park area. … more
An Eritrean refugee in Halifax killed himself in late February after losing an asylum appeal to Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board. Habtom Kibraeb, 40, was found dead, hanging from a tree in the Clayton Park area. … more
By BEN HARTMAN Eritreans constitute by far the largest population of asylum-seekers in Israel, according to the United Nations high commissioner for refugees. … more
By BEN HARTMAN Eritreans constitute by far the largest population of asylum-seekers in Israel, according to the United Nations high commissioner for refugees. … more
Two Eritrean men were charged yesterday with abducting African refugees who wished to work in Israel and extorting money from their families already here. … more
Two Eritrean men were charged yesterday with abducting African refugees who wished to work in Israel and extorting money from their families already here. … more
By Jack Oyoo “The documents are being studied on whether they qualify for refugee status, and officials say they cannot confirm immediately whether this will happen. But they have a strong case,” the source said. … more