LONDON, 8 April 2015 (IRIN) – As the Saudi-led aerial bombardment of Yemen intensifies and a full-scale civil war appears increasingly inevitable, there are few immediate escape routes for well over a million African migrants and refugees in the country. Ports...
By Kumera Genet. Note: This is the second in a two part interview (click here to read the first part) with Farah to share more about the Migrant Community Center, and Anti-Racism efforts in Lebanon. The attack and subsequent suicide in 2012 of Alem...
The Center for the Rights of Ethiopian Women (CREW) successfully conducted its fourth international conference on Ethiopian women in the Diaspora on March 7, 2015 at Sheraton Hotel in Silver Spring, MD. The theme of the conference was \”the Role of Civil Society...
By Kumera Genet. The attack and subsequent suicide in 2012 of Alem Dechasa-Desisa, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker in Lebanon, was a turning point in the consciousness of the Ethiopian and African Diaspora. The video of Ali Mafuz — Alem\’s employer...
The Guardian. The low social status of Ethiopian women lies at the root of violence against them and the tragic cases of two teenagers have galvanized female activists in their efforts to tackle it. Tejnesh Leweg’neh, a 15-year-old from Ethiopia’s mountainous northern...
