38th Session of the Human Rights Council: Eritrean Delegation Statement

BY AMBASSADOR TESFAMICAEL GERAHTU 38th HRC Session – Item 4 – Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur Geneva, 26 June 2018 Mr. President, In the last six years, Eritrea has been subjected to harassment under the country-specific resolutions and mandates of the Human Right Council. As pointed out on many occasions, this is not driven […]

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

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 […]

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FM Urges UNHRC to Terminate and Rescind Country-Specific Resolutions on Eritrea

By TesfaNews, Eritrean Foreign Minister, Osman Saleh, on Monday called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to unequivocally terminate both the Country-Specific Resolution and Country Mandate holder on Eritrea in order for the Council focus on strengthening engagement, dialogue and institutional linkage with Eritrea under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) framework that he described […]

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