Eritrea: Rapporteur highlights “most serious violations” during historic UN General assembly address

By HRCE
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October 24, 2013October 28, 2013

In her first “interactive dialogue” with the UN General Assembly, the UN Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea urged the Eritrean government to ensure that its people are able to “live in dignity” and challenge human rights violations “without the threat of…

Mrs. Elsa Chyrum attended the Seventh Dublin Platform for Human Rights Defenders

By HRCE
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October 12, 2013October 28, 2013

Elsa Chyrum speaking at the Seventh Dublin Platform for Human Rights Defenders, 10 October 2013, Dublin, Ireland. “Human Rights Defenders are people who, individually or collectively, work peacefully on behalf of others to promote and defend internationally recognised human rights”.

BOAT TRAGEDY: MORE ERITREANS DIE AS THEY TRY TO ESCAPE FROM AFEWERKI’S INHUMAN REGIME

By HRCE
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October 4, 2013April 4, 2016

It is in all the newspapers: ‘More than 100 dead in boat tragedy at gates of Europe’ is today’s headline in the Guardian. We read with mounting sadness as the death toll rises to 200, 300 or more feared dead. The dead are referred to as…

Dozens of Eritrean mutineers killed says army deserter

By HRCE
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October 1, 2013October 28, 2013

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

By HRCE
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September 24, 2013September 27, 2013

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?

By HRCE
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July 3, 2013July 3, 2013

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…

ERITREA: UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL RENEWS AND STRENGTHENS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR’S MANDATE

By HRCE
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June 16, 2013July 3, 2013

The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) today adopted a resolution on Eritrea, increasing the scope of the mandate for the UN Special Rapporteur, who will now also present her groundbreaking report on the human rights situation in Eritrea to the UN General Assembly in New…

Letter to the President of the Federal States of Somalia

By HRCE
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June 16, 2013June 16, 2013

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…

UN rights expert urges the world to keep Eritrea under scrutiny and help people fleeing the country

By HRCE
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June 7, 2013June 16, 2013

GENEVA (5 June 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, today reiterated her call on the international community to keep monitoring the human rights situation in Eritrea and to protect and support those fleeing the country, in particular the increasing numbers…

Eritrea: Voices of victims call for greater pressure from international and regional mechanisms

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June 6, 2013June 7, 2013

Geneva, 6 June 2013: Human Rights Concern – Eritrea with Article 19, Amnesty International, Civicus, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network Project, Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders, organised a side event on 5 June 2013, from 14:00 –…

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