[Summary] Throughout its mandate, the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea kept the Government of Eritrea fully informed of its lines of investigation and sought to include its views and input in the report, based on their substantial value and as they related to the mandate. Its repeated requests notwithstanding, the Group was not permitted to visit Eritrea during its mandate and did not obtain the Government’s full cooperation, contrary to Security Council resolution 2182 (2014). Continue reading
Open Letter to Rt Hon. David Cameron MP
HRCE director, Elizabeth Chyrum, sends an open letter to Rt Hon. David Cameron MP expressing deep concern on the Home Office’s permission of the UKBA to use a completely discredited Danish report as the criteria for determining the outcome of applications filed by Eritrean asylum-seekers who have fled from the open-ended national service characterised by UN and human rights agencies as forced labour or as a modern form of slavery. Read the full letter below: Continue reading
‘If we don’t give them a voice, no one will’: Eritrea’s Forgotten Journalists, Still Jailed after 14 Years
(The Guardian, Abraham Tesfalul Zere, 19 August, 2015) Eritrea has become one of the world’s worst offenders for human rights abuses over the last decade, imprisoning the third highest number journalists – after China and Iran.
Those writers who remain face stringent censorship in a media climate characterised by the monotonous recycling of official information put out by a paranoid government. Continue reading
People Smuggler: World’s Most Wanted
Sky News’ Alex Crawford goes on the hunt for the world’s most wanted people smuggler. She travels through some of the most inhospitable and dangerous places on Earth, as Sky News follows the key human trafficking routes through Libya and onto the Mediterranean Sea.
Crowford meets the migrants, many of whom from Eritrea, willing to risk everything in search of a better life and see the horrendous conditions many of them have to endure. She also speaks with the authorities faced with the “hopeless” task of policing Libya’s porous border. Watch the vide below:
The True Human Rights Situation in Eritrea: the New UK Home Office Guidance as a Political Instrument for the Prevention of Migration
(Sara Palacios Arapiles, BA Law) This research paper aims at documenting the true situation in Eritrea, in order to refute the credibility of the content and of some of the sources of the new Guidance on Eritrea issued by the UK Home Office (HO); and of the related policies that are being implemented in some other countries, such as Israel.
http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/6097/1/RLI%20Working%20Paper%20No.14.pdf
Eritrea: The Cursed Land – Torture and Forced Labour
(La Presse, 20 June, 2015) In Eritrea, one of the worst dictatorships in the world remains in power through terror, mass surveillance, widespread torture, arbitrary detention and forced labor. These violations “of a scope and magnitude rarely seen elsewhere” might constitute “crimes against humanity,” concludes a recent report by the UN commission investigating human rights in that country the Horn of Africa. Continue reading
Human Rights Concern-Eritrea: Press Release
Geneva, Switzerland (June 30, 2015), Human Rights Concern Eritrea (HRCE) in collaboration with various human rights organizations and international NGO’s hosted a presentation featuring victims and witnesses that contributed their experiences to the recent Commission of Inquiry (COI) report on Eritrea. The COI was established by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on 27 June 2014 to investigate the widespread and systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Eritrea. Continue reading
The Report Of the Commision of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea
The report was released publicly throught a press conference on Monday, 8 June 2015 at 10:30 AM.
This page contains a short and long (detailed findings) version of the COI report, a press release on the report, an updated fact sheet and visual material – satellite photos, a map and drawings from an Eritrean torture survivor.
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/CoIEritrea/Pages/ReportCoIEritrea.aspx














