Human Rights

GENEVA: The UN urged Israel Tuesday to refrain from mass deportations of Eritreans following weekend clashes involving asylum seekers, warning it would “contravene international law” and could have dire human consequences.  The United Nations refugee agency said it was “deeply concerned” by the clashes that erupted on Saturday when a …

    DECEMBER 7, 2022 MARTIN PLAUT NEWS, POLITICAL PRISONERS   The independent Eritrean journalists who have been jailed without trial for the last 21 years were remembered in the British Parliament last night. The star-studded event was opened by the Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Eritrea, Patrick Grady MP, …

RES/004/10/22: RESOLUTION ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ERITREA We, the participants in the Forum on the Participation of NGOs in the 73rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights have submitted these resolutions adopted at the NGOs Forum: To put an end to violations of human rights in Eritrea, Call on the African Commission on Human & Peoples Rights to unequivocally condemn the flagrant violations of the Eritrean regime to the human rights in Eritrea, as stated in the report of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Eritrea, Dr. Mohamed Abdel Salam (2022), as well as the targeting of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia through murder and arbitrary arrest.

  AFTERNOON – Human Rights Council Holds Separate Interactive Dialogues on the Human Rights Situations in Eritrea and in Sri Lanka  04 March 2022 MEETING SUMMARIES   The Human Rights Council this afternoon held separate interactive dialogues on the situations of human rights in Eritrea and in Sri Lanka. Mohamed Abdulsalam …

Author: Zachary Laub Tens of thousands of Eritreans have arrived at Europe’s shores in recent years seeking asylum. They make up a significant share of the unprecedented stream of migrants and refugees making their way to the European Union, undertaking dangerous journeys while challenging the bloc to find a collective response consistent …

Amnesty International speaks out against Eritrea’s Dutch offensive by Martin Plaut The Dutch Amnesty International website recently published an article on intimidation and the use of legal action being taken by supporters of the Eritrean regime towards critics in the Netherlands. The critics that are targeted state that this has not …

Eritrea – the home country of many of the migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean – has been accused by the UN of human rights violations on a “scope and scale seldom witnessed elsewhere” Many of the migrants currently attempting to cross the Mediterranean are from Eritrea Photo: Rowan Griffiths/PA By …

Statement by Ms. Sheila B. Keetharuth, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Eritrea at the 31th session of the Human Rights Council   Agenda item 4 14 March 2016 Geneva Mr. President, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am honoured to brief you in my capacity as …

Unaccompanied children are fleeing Eritrea to avoid conscription, putting them at risk of abduction and abuse as they seek shelter in places including Europe, a United Nations rights envoy said. There’s been a “steady influx of Eritrean unaccompanied and separated children” into Egypt and neighboring Ethiopia and Sudan since 2008, …

– Indefinite Military Service and Forced Labor Arbitrary Arrest, Prolonged Detention, and Inhumane Conditions Freedom of Speech and Association Freedom of Religion Refugee Policy Key International Actors – -Two key developments in 2015 highlighted the consequences of President Isaias Afwerki’s authoritarian rule: the continuing flow of Eritreans escaping the country, …