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Ethiopia: Tigrayan forces murder, rape and pillage in attacks on civilians in Amhara towns

Fighters affiliated with the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) deliberately killed dozens of people, gang-raped dozens of women and girls...

Ethiopia: Tigrayans targeted in fresh wave of ethnically motivated detentions in Addis Ababa

Security forces in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, have targeted Tigrayans, including children and the elderly, with arbitrary arrests and...

Ethiopia: Survivors of TPLF attack in Amhara describe gang rape, looting and physical assaults

Women raped at gunpoint, robbed and assaulted Lack of medical care after TPLF fighters damaged and looted hospital Abuses committed...

A Taliban fighter stands guard as Afghan women shout slogans during an anti-Pakistan protest rally, near the Pakistan embassy in Kabul on September 7, 2021. - The Taliban on September 7, 2021 fired shots into the air to disperse crowds who had gathered for an anti-Pakistan rally in the capital, the latest protest since the hardline Islamist movement swept to power last month. (Photo by Hoshang Hashimi / AFP) (Photo by HOSHANG HASHIMI/AFP via Getty Images)

Crisis and Tactical Round-Up Fall 2021: Focus on Afghanistan

Afghanistan Afghanistan is at risk of losing the human rights gains made in the last 20 years. Amnesty was among...

Ethiopia: Troops and militia rape, abduct women and girls in Tigray conflict – new report

Forces aligned to the Ethiopian government subjected hundreds of women and girls to sexual violence Rape and sexual slavery constitute...

Ethiopia: End arbitrary detentions of Tigrayans, activists and journalists in Addis Ababa and reveal whereabouts of unaccounted detainees

Police in Addis Ababa have arbitrarily arrested and detained dozens of Tigrayans without due process, following the recapture of the...

Ethiopia: Tepid international response to Tigray conflict fuels horrific violations over past six months

African and other world leaders must urgently speak out and do more to stem the ferocious tide of human rights...

Ethiopia: Eritrean troops’ massacre of hundreds of Axum civilians may amount to crime against humanity

Amnesty International interviewed 41 survivors and witnesses to mass killings in November Troops carried out extrajudicial executions, indiscriminate shelling and...

Ethiopia: Protect civilians in Mekelle offensive

The conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region is on the brink of a deadly escalation after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...

Ethiopia: Investigation reveals evidence that scores of civilians were killed in massacre in Tigray state

Spokespersons available to take media interviews Amnesty International can today confirm the that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were...

Ethiopia: Over 50 ethnic Amhara killed in attack on village by armed group

Amnesty International can reveal that at least 54 people from the Amhara ethnic group were killed in an attack late...

Ethiopia: Nobel Peace Prize must spur Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed towards further human rights reform

Spokespersons available to take media interviews Responding to the announcement that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been awarded the...

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