EDITORIAL// Eritrea’s Election to the United Nations Human Rights Council

Eritrea strongly believes the promotion and protection of human rights should be based on impartiality, genuine dialogue, constructive engagement, and close cooperation … BY MINISTRY OF INFORMATION Eritrea is pleased and highly honored to be elected to serve on the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC). The HRC is the UN’s inter-governmental body that deliberates […]

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General Assembly Elects Eritrea to Human Rights Council

The UN General Assembly plenary meeting today elects 18 member states, including Eritrea, to the 47-member UN Human Rights Council based in Geneva. BY UNITED NATIONS The General Assembly today elected 18 States to the Human Rights Council, the United Nations body responsible for promoting and protecting all human rights around the globe.

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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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Eritrean Delegation Statement at the UN Interactive Dialogue on Human Rights

BY AMANUEL GIORGIO Mr. Chairman Distinguished delegates This is the fifth time the Special Rapporteur is appearing before the Third Committee in an informal setting whose bias work against Eritrea has been clear. Her mandate was tabled and spearheaded by countries with known hostile stance against Eritrea with the aim of demonizing and isolating Eritrea […]

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#HRC34: UK Statement on the Human Rights Situation in Eritrea

This statement was delivered during the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea on 13 March 2017. BY UK MISSION – GENEVA The United Kingdom would like to thank the Special Rapporteur for her work. The UK shares her concerns on the human rights situation in Eritrea and […]

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Eritrea: Deconstructing the Commission of Inquiry’s Report (Part – I)

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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Eritrea: Deconstructing the Commission of Inquiry’s Report (Part – 2)

(… 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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