Author: HRCE

Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, after her visit to Tunisia and Malta (11 – 20 November 2013)

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(GENEVA 25 November 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, expressed great concern about rampant human rights violations in Eritrea which caused hundreds of thousands to leave their country for an unknown and precarious future.

Eritrea:Travel Warning U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs

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Eritrea – November 18, 2013 The U.S. Department of State continues to warn U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Eritrea and strongly recommends U.S. citizens defer all travel to the country. This replaces the Travel Warning for Eritrea of May 10, 2013 to remind U.S.…

Dozens of Eritrean mutineers killed says army deserter

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September 30, 2013 (SHIRE, ETHIOPIA) – An Eritrean soldier who recently fled to Ethiopia has alleged that many of the dissident soldiers who in January laid siege at the ministry of information building in the capital Asmara have been killed.

Threat and Intimidation Campaign against Advocates of Rights of Bologna Summit 2013 is Violation of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders

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London 23-09-2013: Human Rights Concern Eritrea (HRCE) has strongly condemned a new threat and intimidation campaign currently underway against the participants of the Bologna Summit 2013. The campaign started on Friday 14 September 2013, via two Eritrean Paltalk Rooms and continues until this day. It aggressively…

Eritrean Prisoners of War ————- Detained, For how long?

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During the Eritrean – Djiboutian border conflict, that took place between 10 – 13 June 2008, there       were Prisoners of War (POW) from both sides. The 19 Eritrean POW have been detained in Negad detention center in Djibouti. One of the POWs (see…

Letter to the President of the Federal States of Somalia

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H.E. Prof. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud The President of the Federal States of Somalia Via : Email 13 June 2013 Your Excellency, I would like to take this opportunity to deeply thank you for your Government’s principled positions at the United Nations in Geneva, which are a…