This article was written by Harry Sanders, a content writer for the Immigration Advice Service. Since November 2020, the Tigray region in th
This is actually something that I hadn't heard about yet. War has broken out in the area and people are fleeing trying to get away from the violence. Girls are being raped and beaten across the area. Tigray refuges are not receiving the humanitarian aid that they need due to Ethiopia not allowing organizations into the region. The refugees of Tigray are in desperate need to help otherwise they may face losing even more of their lives not only to the violence there but also starvation. This has been happening since November 2020 and this is the first I have heard of it happening. We talk a big game about caring about human rights but when things are actually happening like this or the Xinjiang internment camps in China, the media and officials don't do much to call out those countries. If the United States and other countries really cared about human rights as much as they say that they do then they should be doing more.
I also have not heard of this conflict, and I am shocked that there has been no media coverage of this given that it has been going on for a decent amount of time and it seems like the situation is very grave. I think this conversation about how the media or officials portray different countries and their human rights violations is very important, because not every violation is equally paid attention to. It almost seems like the more powerful a country is the less attention it pays to human rights violations in less powerful countries, and they seem to tend to only call out countries who are on or close to their level of international power—which is highly concerning considering that the countries that would actually be able to do something about abuses like these are the ones who tend not to pay attention to them, which is incredibly problematic.















