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Eritrea: Under International Scrutiny, Allow Independent Human Rights Monitoring

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Press Release Eritrea: Under International Scrutiny, Allow Independent Human Rights Monitoring 4th February 2014 The Government of Eritrea should accept recommendations to cooperate fully with the United Nations human rights system, said Human Rights Concern-Eritrea, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project and…

PRESS RELEASE: Eritrean Refugee dies in Negad detention cerntre in Djibouti

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Eritrean Refugee dies in Negad detention cerntre in Djibouti PRESS RELEASE 30th January 2014 Eritrean Refugee dies in Negad detention cerntre in Djibouti Thomas Haddish, a 21 -year-old Eritrean, died yesterday evening in Djibouti Negad Detention Centre. Having fled from Eritrea three years ago, fearing serious…

Responses by Human Rights Concern – Eritrea (HRCE) to the Eritrean National Report

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Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights of – Eritrea National Report Submitted to the Human Rights Council by Government of Eritrea (GoE) Nov. 2013  http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G13/185/01/PDF/G1318501.pdf?OpenElement V. Progress on UPR Recommendations A.    Rights of the Child: Follow-up to 2009 UPR Recommendations: Implementation: The GoE accepted the recommendation…

International Human Rights Day

The UN General Assembly proclaimed 10th December as Human Rights Day in 1950, to bring to the attention ‘of the peoples of the world’ the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as the common standard of achievement defining shared ideals and values for all peoples. The…

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…