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…

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…

His Holiness the late Pope Shenouda III Pope of Alexandria Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark 3 August 1923 – 17 March 2012I would like to openly express my deep gratitude for the memory of His Holiness whose existence served as an example of just…

Press Release Eritrea: Human Rights Council Must Increase Attention to Widespread and Systematic Violations 14th March 2012

Reporters Without Borders (http://www.rsf.org) Advocacy 8 February 2012 ERITREA Plea by Paris lawyer on behalf of journalists imprisoned in Eritrea Just two weeks from now, 22 February, is the third anniversary of a raid on Radio Bana in central Asmara in which about 50 journalists were…

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE KNESSET COMMITTEE IN ISRAEL WHO HAVE ENDORSED THE ANTI-INFILTRATION BILL The text of the bill contains the following provisions: Automatic Criminalization of any person’s entry into Israel without a permit – with no discernment or consideration of the circumstances of his…

Still Waiting for Sanctions on Eritrea for Human Rights Abuses  As we celebrate International Human Rights Day, we welcome the Security Council Sanctions on Eritrea as a means of bringing to light some of the human rights abuses being perpetrated every day on Eritreans in Eritrea…

Notorious Human Smuggler Shot Dead; 611 Eritreans Released Posted on November 17, 2011 by Gedab News Suleiman Abdellah Necklawi, aka “The Sultan”, a notorious Egyptian human smuggler, was killed in a shoot-out by Bedouins of another tribe. Consequently, according to the UNHCR and EveryOne Group, 611…

Human Rights Concern – Eritrea (HRCE) has in its possession a growing list of 336 people, mostly Eritrean, with 14 Ethiopians, who are missing and can only be presumed dead after the massacre of a refugee boat which had departed from Tajour in Tripoli at 5:00…

PLEASE HELP TO STOP THESE BRUTAL BEATINGS AND PLANNED DEPORTATION Over the past two weeks about 280 detainees in Misrata prison have been forced to fill in repatriation forms given to the prison authorities by the Eritrean Embassy in Libya. Those who refused to co-operate have…