EthiopiaNews bites Yemen: Migrants Abused, Tortured by Smugglers, reporst MSFSANA’A, YEMEN/NEW YORK, MAY 1, 2013—Authorities in Yemen have freed more than one thousand migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia, many suffering from torture and sexual abuse while forcibly held by human smugglers, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which has treated the migrants, said today.Read more Ethiopia Ethiopia opens new camp for Eritrean refugeesADDIS ABABA, 16 April 2010 (AFP)—Ethiopia announced Thursday it has opened a new camp in the north of the country to accommodate the growing number of Eritrean refugees arriving each month.Read more Ethiopia Archbishop calls for fight against trafficking and displacementVATICAN, 8 October 2009 (CISA)—Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel calls for action in reducing human trafficking and reinforcing the human dignity of displaced persons at the October 2009 Synod on Africa.Read more Urgent Call for International Response to Boat People and Other Migrants Injured or Traumatized Crossing BordersThe Bishop of Djibouti is to make a direct appeal for an urgent response to migrant victims of violence this week in Geneva.Read more |