Mahlet, a 17-year-old rape survivor from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, waits at a UNFPA-supported facility for women and girls who have been subjected to gender-based violence.Human Rights Watch urged Ethiopian authorities to establish independent vetting mechanisms to ensure that federal and regional military and police personnel responsible for serious abuses are not reintegrated into the national army or police.
- Advertisement -International human rights organizations and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission have accused both sides of committing atrocities during the two-year-long war in northern Ethiopia. "Most are Tigrayan and had been arbitrarily detained in the town of Humera. Interviewees said that local authorities and Amhara forces held over a thousand Tigrayans in detention in Western Tigray towns before forcibly expelling Tigrayans in November 2022 or January 2023," the report reads.