Prepared for a Meeting at the House of Lords, United Kingdom [1] On 18 June 2015 By Asmarom Legesse, Ph.D. (Harvard) Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Boston & Northwestern Universities and Swarthmore College ALLOW me to express my gratitude for giving me the opportunity to address members of this august body and to Lord Rea and Lord […]
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By TesfaNews, ERITREA’S Permanent Representative to the United Nations today criticized a briefing on Eritrea delivered by the President of the Human Rights Council to G77 and China in New York. Ambassador Girma Asmerom in his remark to the Council said that the President’s report was not only procedurally wrong but opinionated and judgmental. “As Ambassador and […]
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By Seble Ephrem, SINCE pre-colonial times this small land on the northern coastline of the Horn of Africa has been eyed from multiple perspectives by all types of interested parties – always from the standpoint of a predatory self interest. Mussolini needed to expand his Empire and with the help of the British, carved up […]
Continue ReadingBy Arul Louis, INDIA has called for focusing UN human rights endeavours on advocacy and consensus building, while eschewing ideologically-driven pronouncements and striving for impartiality. Indian Ambassador Asoke Kumar Mukerji told the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Monday: “The focus should be on advocacy and consensus building through promotion of better understanding of human rights issues” […]
Continue ReadingBy TesfaNews, THE Permanent Representative of Eritrea at the United Nations, H.E. Ambassador Girma Asmerom, today (28) delivered a statement on agenda item 68 (b,c): Promotion and Protection of the Human Rights during the Interactive Dialogue of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Eritrea at the third Committee of the 69th […]
Continue ReadingBy UNHR, A GROUP of United Nations human rights experts* today urged the Government of Ethiopia to stop misusing anti-terrorism legislation to curb freedoms of expression and association in the country, amid reports that people continue to be detained arbitrarily. The experts’ call comes on the eve of the consideration by Ethiopia of a series of […]
Continue ReadingBy UN Watch, THE 47 member states of the UN Human Rights Council are expected to vote in favor or against creating a commission of inquiry into the alleged human rights abuses in Eritrea, as proposed in a draft resolution, sponsored by Somalia, that is slated for a vote today. If adopted, the resolution would “strongly […]
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 […]
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