Happy Ashenda to the Tigray community, from all of us at the Alliance of Genocide Victim Communities. Ashenda celebrates the beauty, dignity, freedom and strength of Tigrayan women and girls. This year, its joy is shadowed by deeply precarious circumstances in Tigray. The main public gathering in Mekelle was cancelled amid renewed drone strikes and fears of further conflict—a painful reminder that the people of Tigray are still being denied the peace and security they deserve