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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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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By Berhane Alazar, THE West’s hypocrisy towards the third world countries in general and Eritrea in particular continues unabated and is simply mind-boggling how it chooses only one side of the coin! Watching the “Monkey see, monkey do” type drama unfolding, yesterday in Geneva, of the so called “Commission of Inquiry” of the UN Human […]
Continue ReadingBy 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 […]
Continue ReadingBy TesfaNews, The Eritrean Delegation at the 24th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva exercised its right of reply to the statement made by the representative of Lithuania on behalf of EU, the Republic of Germany and Austria. (Video Fast Forward @ 1:43:25)
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