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  1. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
  2. Eritrea
    Struggle for Independence

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    One of the longest and most bitter nationalist struggles in Africa is being fought in Eritrea. The Horn of Africa has been the scene of tremendous levels of political upheaval, famine and intermittent war. At the centre of these regional problems is the question of the rights of self-determination of various submerged nationalities. The Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict is perhaps the most costly human tragedy to afflict the region in the last quarter century.
  3. Eritrea commits crimes against humanity, UN says
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Eritrea's government is guilty of committing crimes against humanity since independence a quarter-century ago with up to 400,000 people "enslaved", the UN has said. The crimes committed since 1991 include imprisonment, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killings, and rape and murder, said the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) on human rights.
  4. Eritrea - last in the World Press Freedom Index for the past eight years
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails this week's report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea. The report says some of the human rights violations by President Issayas Afeworki's government, which include the arbitrary detention
  5. Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
  6. A moment at the pizza place
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    I’m waiting for a slice of pizza at La Festa, the pizza place across the street from my office, chatting with the owner. She’s originally from Eritrea, now settled in Canada.
  7. OXFAM Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  8. Sad anniversary for Eritrean press freedom
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Dawit Isaak, a journalist with Swedish and Eritrean dual nationality who used to work for the Eritrean newspaper Setit in Asmara, is spending his 5,000th day in prison today, May 2, 2015. He has never been sentenced or even charged.
  9. Six Eritrean journalists released after nearly six years in prison
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Six Eritrean journalists (Bereket Misghina, Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu and Basilios Zemo of Radio Bana, Meles Negusse Kiflu), who had been held since a wave of arrests in February 2009, were released probationally.
  10. The Socialist Register 1982
    Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  11. Suffering Strong
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    This readable book tells readers much about the underlying causes of hunger in Africa. Through the author's powers of observation, the readers experience the horror of seeing both a starving child and the thrill of accomplishment of irrigated fields in Eritrea. The odyssey details the devastating impact of the West's two hundred year presence on the wars and oppression that today cause hunger and death in Africa.


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