Geneva Demonstration Archives

Eritreans Staged Mass Demonstration in Geneva Denouncing COI Report (VIDEO)

June 22, 2016TesfaNews70 Comments

By Shabait, Eritreans and friends of Eritrea staged a mass demonstration in Geneva, Switzerland Today, June 21, 2016. The mass rally was aimed at protesting against the latest appalling report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea.

Successful London Public Seminar by Eritrean Ambassador to the UK

February 2, 2016February 2, 2016TesfaNews45 Comments

By Shabait, Eritrea’s Ambassador to the UK and North Ireland, Ambassador Estifanos Habtemariam, conducted a seminar to Eritreans residing in London on 31 January. In his address to the participants, Ambassador Estifanos indicated that Eritrea’s development progress is currently at a promising stage thanks to the strong unity and perseverance of Eritreans everywhere.

Mainstream Media Ignores Europe-wide Eritrean Demonstration

June 28, 2015July 31, 2020TesfaNews44 Comments

By Sophia Tesfamariam, IN JUST one week, it seems very cold water has been dropped on the media frenzy designed to buttress a sensationalized politically motivated report on Eritrea released by the Commission on Inquiry (COI) on 8 June 2015. The headlines bemoan the lack of action by policy makers-who seem to be having a […]

Mike Smith is to Eritrea What Colin Powell was to Iraq

June 27, 2015June 27, 2015TesfaNews37 Comments

By Bereket Kidane, FORMER Secretary of State, Colin Powell, went in front of the United Nations and pointed at the map of Iraq declaring, “We know where those weapons of mass destruction are…they are here, here and here.” It never occurred to him that he had been duped. Or may be he knew all along. […]

Letter to the UN Human Rights Council from Eritrea-based Civil Society Groups

June 22, 2015June 22, 2015TesfaNews30 Comments

DEAR Members of the Human Rights Council, As members of civil society representing diverse groups in Eritrea, we are incensed by the outrageous and extraordinary human rights related allegations made in the 484-page report of the Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea. The most extraordinary yet least substantiated of these allegations is that of “systematic, widespread […]

Press Release: Eritrean Global Action Day of Defiance

June 15, 2015June 15, 2015TesfaNews65 Comments

PRESS RELEASE ERITREANS in Europe, outraged by the recent assault on their people and country by the so-called “Commission of Inquiry” of the UN Human Rights Council, and standing for genuine human rights, are holding a protest rally in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday 22 June, 2015. The UN Commission of Inquiry for Human Rights in Eritrea, […]