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 foreign country.
ELS member, Mohammed Omer, held a meeting on behalf of the Eritrean Law Society with the director of Alliance for Multicultural Community Services (the Alliance), Mr. Kassahun Bisrat.
On Sunday June 6, 2010, Dr. Bereket Habte Selassie, Chair Person of the Eritrean Constitution Commission and a leading scholar on African Law and Government met with Eritrean Law Society in the Washington Metro Area.
May 24 2010: We have seen great tragedy these days where around 80 Eritrean asylum seekers who departed to claim asylum in 
In a classroom at Glasgow’s Anniesland College, a group of teenage students are working together to solve a puzzle set for them by their teacher.
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has just issued its latest report on Eritrea. ICFC is pleased that the Commission’slatest recommendations to the US State Department, the President and Congress is much more robust than it has ever been.
As a continuation of its ongoing effort to meet and establish working partnership with different organizations that share its goals and objectives, the Eritrean Law Society met and held talks with Human Rights Watch.
The European Union should halt aid to Eritrea until a Swedish-Eritrean journalist and other prisoners at an Eritrean “death camp” are released or given a fair trial, Swedish media and rights groups said Monday, to mark World Press Freedom Day.
Last Tuesday April 27th 2010, there was a conference held at the national press club in
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Dawit Isaak, a journalist who has been held without trial in Eritrea for over eight years, is to have a fair trial, Swedish parliamentarian Eva-Britt Svensson said on Wednesday, following her meeting with an Eritrean official in Brussells.
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SCHUYLKILL HAVEN – Eritrean author Alemseged Tesfai said a lack of language helped make his country vulnerable to Ethiopian rule, but now he wants to use his writing to correct the historical record.
I didn’t think I would respond to Thomas C. Mr. Mountain’s article entitled, “Sweden’s Cause Celebre Dawit Issack: Hero or Zero?” published in Eritreacompass.com, a sister website of shabait.com.(a website of the Ministry of Information).
Two University of Virginia students have been awarded a 2010 Davis Projects for Peace award for their program to bring together Muslim and Coptic Christian orphans in Egypt.
Eritrea is not quite two decades old. But it has become an international problem, a source of instability and repression on the Horn of Africa. It also is one of the world’s worst religious persecutors.