PHR’s response to the crisis started in response to widespread conflict-related sexual violence being reported in Tigray.
United Nations United Nations_HRC Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield U.S. Embassy Addis USAID Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus World Health Organization (WHO) Congressman Brad Sherman
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At the time, providers in the region were seeing a massive influx of patients who were survivors of CRSV & showed brutal & complex injuries from those violations.
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“🇪🇹 was once championed as a robust system of community health, a leader among countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The conflict, especially in Tigray, has caused stark changes in health care on every level.”  
Food and Agriculture Organization USAID World Health Organization (WHO) address #Aid4Tigray Eleni70🎯🔝 phr.org/our-work/resou…

We also introduced a forensic medical certificate to use in documentation which PHR has piloted other contexts as a best practice for forensic documentation.  
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PHR’s engagement in 🇪🇹 illustrates our theory of change in action: providing evidence-based tools, & using documentation to speak out against atrocities and advocate for justice.
United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) Human Rights Watch United Nations_HRC Congressman Brad Sherman ensure #Justice4TigrayGenocide Eleni70🎯🔝 phr.org/our-work/resou…

Together with health care workers, we developed important research questions that we are continuing to investigate. 
United Nations United Nations_HRC Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield Vice President Kamala Harris U.S. Embassy Addis USAID MSF International Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus World Health Organization (WHO) President Biden ICRC Congressman Brad Sherman #TigrayGenocide #Justice4Tigray Eleni70🎯🔝 phr.org/our-work/resou…

Our partners in 🇪🇹 are heroic. They maintained care & services during continued siege through immense stressors & with very little support.
United Nations United Nations_HRC Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield U.S. Embassy Addis USAID Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus World Health Organization (WHO) Congressman Brad Sherman
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The partners faced hunger, food shortages,& economic insecurity. They experienced increased workloads from both high turnover as colleagues were forced to flee & the many patients seeking care b/c of the conflict. 
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Experts have warned an official state of famine in #Tigray region could be declared as soon as July of ‘23 &now the lives of death is inclining
Martin Kimani Harold Adlai Agyeman United Nations Human Rights Council President Biden #Tigray Famine
🚨 #UpholdPretoriaAgreement
🚨 #EritreaTroopsOutOfTigray Tsige Keshi

📢 Ethiopia hunger crisis in #Tigray : ‘The only option we have now is to wait for support, or die, because we don’t have anything to eat’, villagers say as looming famine 'worse than the 1980s' #Tigray Famine #Tigray Genocide United Nations Geneva EU at the UN - Geneva #MultilateralismMatters European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺
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#Tigray Genocide was fought b/n Nov 2020 & Nov 2022 in which estimates speak of close to 1Million people of #Tigray /ans killed, 120,000women of all ages & social class raped was as weapon/destruction & looting.
United Nations Geneva Department of State UK Parliament ICRC US & Canada Tsige Keshi

📢We also want to have irrefutable evidence that can be documented for future accountability, should those avenues become available.
United Nations United Nations_HRC Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield U.S. Embassy Addis USAID Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus World Health Organization (WHO) Congressman Brad Sherman
#TigrayGenocide #Justice4TigrayGenocide Tsige Keshi

We also want to have irrefutable evidence that can be documented for future accountability, should those avenues become available.
United Nations United Nations_HRC Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield U.S. Embassy Addis USAID Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus World Health Organization (WHO) Congressman Brad Sherman
#TigrayGenocide #Justice4TigrayGenocide Tsige Keshi
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📢We call for the ongoing methodologically rigorous documentation to better understand the scope of what is occurring in🇪🇹. And we are advocating for optimal trauma-informed care for survivors of sexual violence.
United Nations United Nations_HRC #Justice4TigrayGenocide
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PHR goal: Empower survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in 🇪🇹with comprehensive trauma-informed care.

United Nations United Nations_HRC Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield Human Rights Watch USAID Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus World Health Organization (WHO) Vice President Kamala Harris Congressman Brad Sherman, demand #Justice4TigrayGenocide & end the #TigrayGenocide .Tsige Keshi

#TigrayFamine One step short of outright famine, this level of hunger is still bad enough for children in the poorest families to die of starvation and disease. Samantha Power #UpholdPretoriaAgreement Mike Hammer United Nations Human Rights Council European Commission UN Humanitarian
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#TigrayFamine One step short of outright famine, this level of hunger is still bad enough for children in the poorest families to die of starvation and disease. Samantha Power #UpholdPretoriaAgreement Mike Hammer United Nations Human Rights Council European Commission UN Humanitarian World Food Programme Tsige Keshi

The fighting was between Ethiopian government and allied forces on the one hand, and Tigrayan forces on the other, following a massive fall-out between the federal and regional governments.
#Justice4TigrayGenocide United Nations Geneva United Nations Human Rights Council Human Rights Watch Cindy McCain
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#TigrayFamine More than 1.4 million people were forcibly displaced, especially from the more fertile western parts of Tigray,
#TigrayGenocide #UN #UpholdPretoriaAgreement Mike Hammer European Commission UK Parliament UN Humanitarian World Food Programme Olaf Scholz Tsige Keshi
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#TigrayGenocide Veterans of relief operations, however, are comparing the crisis to the situation in 1984, when a combination of drought and war caused a famine that killed up to a million people.
#Aid4Tigray UN Humanitarian United Nations Geneva World Food Programme USAID AFP News Agency World Health Organization (WHO) bbc.com/news/world-afr…