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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BY ERITREA MISSION- GENEVA | SHABAIT In mid-October this year, Eritrea’s avowed detractors convened a meeting in Brussels under the rubric of “Human Rights Situation in Eritrea”. Principal speakers at the event – which was open to limited and selected invited guests during the first day (October 19th) included the Special Rapporteur on Eritrea (SR) […]
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Mr. President, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen In May last month, the Eritrean people celebrated their 26th Independence Anniversary. The celebrations were held throughout the breadth and length of the country, as well as in the Diaspora, with spectacular public events amid undiminished enthusiasm that has few parallels elsewhere. Asmara’s Liberation and Martyr’s Avenues were […]
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By Aghade*, After watching Friday’s bizarre question and answer session with Special Rapporteur Ms. Sheila Keetharuth, I am obliged to call out her deceptive response to an explicit question from the Inner City Press journalist, Mr. Mathew Russel Lee. For the record, the session was arranged following Ms. Keetharuth’s oral presentation to the UN Assembly’s […]
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By Sophia Tesfamariam, Sheila Keetharuth, the UN Special Rapporteur on Eritrea, has engaged in activities that constitute a flagrant abuse of her mandate and continues to act with blatant violation of the principles of impartiality, non-selectivity and objectivity that govern the work of Special Rapporteurs, thus breaching the equality principles of the Charter of the […]
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(… continued from part 1) By Sophia Tesfamariam, Authorship of the Commission of Inquiry Report on Eritrea A careful reading of the Report shows that the COIE “investigated” by collecting accusations against Eritrea from known anti-Eritrea groups and individuals. The Report dismissed contrary physical, photographic, documentary, and testimonial evidence as unreliable, then rewrote the accusations […]
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By Aghade*, Listening to Special Rapporteur Ms. Sheila Keetharuth make her final presentation yesterday to UN Assembly’s 3rd Committee was very strange, to say the least. Leaving aside the politically motivated report that she predictably wheeled out, Ms. Keetharuth surprised us with her request for some sort of administrative power over Eritrea so that she […]
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By Dr. Samuel Mahaffy, The world that long turned a blind eye to the ruthless and illegitimate violation of Eritrean sovereignty now focuses its gaze on this country. The gaze is perhaps worse than the blind eye. The blind eye to the plight of Eritrea compelled its people to find the deep strength and resiliency […]
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