by Talking Humanities | Nov 9, 2017 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Image: Sheila Keetharuth, UN rapporteur on human rights in Eritrea Martin Plaut, senior research fellow at the School of Advanced Study’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies, reports on a ground-breaking conference on the plight of Eritrean refugees. It was a...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 8, 2016 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Publications
Hopes were high in May 1991 when the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) captured the Eritrean capital, Asmara, and helped the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) overthrow Mengistu Haile Mariam, the Ethiopian military dictator. It was thought that the...