The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said it has deployed humanitarian assessment teams to the troubled Tigray region.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said that two humanitarian assessment missions were able to enter Tigray on Monday.
The deployment of the humanitarian assessment team comes as people in the war-torn region increasingly face a lack of overall humanitarian access, following seven weeks of conflict between the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) and federal forces.
Lack of humanitarian aid coupled with an ongoing communications blackout in many areas raises increasing concerns about the situation of civilians, the commissioner said.
According to EastAfrican news, Bachelet urged Ethiopian authorities to provide unhindered access to the whole of Tigray to protect civilians.