February 9, 2021
Access constraints due to the ongoing insecurity continue to challenge the urgent scale-up of humanitarian assistance and prevent the population from accessing life-saving support. Even if that is the situation in Tigray, the government still denies and do not allow all humanitarian activities desperately needed.
This is a clear human rights violation, in a region where there is lack of basic necessities such as food, water and safe shelter, not to mention the absence of Electricity and communication services such as telephone and internet and shortage of medication. The outside world need to work together to stop the grievous human right violations being committed in Tigray region.
“It remains critical that humanitarian actors and independent human rights monitors be granted immediate, unconditional and sustained access to the entirety of the Tigray region, including IDP [internally displaced people] and refugee camps where new arrivals have allegedly reported cases of sexual violence,” Patten said in a statement.