Dan Yirga Haile, the Executive Director of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO), was in the field collecting data when the news broke that the organization has Amnesty International Germany's Human Rights Prize 2022. The prize is recognition for their efforts in defending human rights over three decades despite facing challenges from the government. Its work includes investigating, monitoring, and reporting on human rights violations in the Horn of Africa country. The efforts of EHRCO to report on human rights violations in the Tigray conflict was one of the reasons it received the Amnesty prize. "We owe a great deal and a great debt of gratitude to the Ethiopian Human Rights Council for bringing to light the terrible atrocities and human rights violations occurring in another conflict zone which is all too often and sadly overlooked," Lawlor said.

Source: Ethiopian News May 31, 2022 12:43 UTC