Vanessa Tsehaye, a Swedish-Eritrean human rights activist based in London and currently working as Amnesty International’s Campaigner for the Horn of Africa, speaks for many Eritrean youth in the diaspora who are affected by the situation in the country as well as the diaspora’s potential to support political change within Africa more broadly.
Vanessa is a globally recognised critic of the PFDJ, and the founder of One Day Seyoum, a youth-led organisation campaigning to end human rights abuses committed against Eritreans.
Started as a high school group, One Day Seyoum is today one of Eritrea’s leading human rights organisations.