To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council 5 May 2020 Extend the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Eritrea Excellencies, At the 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council (24 June-12 July 2019), the Council extended…

Dear President Isaias Afwereki, You may well have heard that Iran, suffering from a huge outbreak of coronavirus, has temporarily released 85,000 prisoners from its jails in order to cope effectively with the virus that has infected the country’s penal system, as well as the whole population.…

United Nations New York, N.Y. 4 November 2019 Dear Deputy General Secretary, It is good to hear of your visit to Eritrea and the welcome you received there. How strange that not a single member of the UN Human Rights Council has ever been invited or allowed…

Mr Antonio Manuel de Carvalho Ferreira Vitorino Director General International Organisation for Migration (IOM) 17 Route de Marillons PO Box 17 CH 1211 Geneva Switzerland Dear Mr. Antonio Manuel de Carvalho Vitorino,  Re:  Repatriation of Eritrean Refugees from Libya Human Rights Concern Eritrea request that the International…

Ms. Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy, Vice President of Commission, European Commission, Rue de la Loi, Wetstraat 200, 1049 BRUSSELS BELGIUM Via Email Cc: Mr. Antonio Tajani, European Parliament president Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission president Mr. Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President…

Your Excellency, We at Human Rights Concern-Eritrea wish to congratulate you on your efforts to forge a lasting peace with Eritrea, concluding an agreement which promises to end 20 years of state of hostilities following the border war which killed over 100,000 people. And we also…

Your Excellency Dr. Abiy Ahmed Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Ethiopia   cc: The Honorable Ambassador Dr. Hailemichael Aberra Afework      London, United Kingdom    23 November 2018   Dear Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed, Re:  The peace process and relations between Ethiopia…

Dear members of the UN General Assembly, We are writing to you with a sense of considerable urgency to raise the issue of Eritrea’s possible future membership of the UN Human Rights Council. We understand that the Eritrean government has submitted an application to be elected…

Your Excellency, On the 5th of June 2018, we noted with delight your government’s decision to unconditionally implement the Algiers Peace Agreement, and humbly attempted to express our concerns with regard to the response of the government of Eritrea to your call for peace. We are…