DefendDefenders calls upon the UNHRC to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea and for the establishment of a structure by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights with a protection and promotion mandate, to assist in ensuring accountability for human rights violations in Eritrea.
In light of the Eritrean Government’s continued and egregious violation of human rights, 22 CSOs urge the UN Human Rights Council to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea and support the establishment of robust accountability mechanisms to facilitate access to justice to the victims of human rights violations and crimes against humanity in Eritrea.
On 8 June 2016, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry
An overview of the Human Rights Situation in the East and Horn of Africa between October 2015 and March 2016
Joint Oral Statement by the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project and Reporters Without Borders to the Special Rapporteur on Eritrea.
Aux Représentants Permanents des Etats membres du Conseil des droits
Reflétant le thème général de l’année 2013 comme l’année du Panafricanisme et de la Renaissance Africaine, nous vous écrivons pour demander à l’Union Africaine de prendre des mesures urgentes pour répondre à la situation dramatique des violations généralisées et systématiques des droits de l’homme en Erythrée, en particulier dans le cadre du sous sous-thème de la commémoration de promouvoir la paix et la sécurité en Afrique.
Report submitted to the 53rd Ordinary Session of the African
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network
44 countries yesterday called on the Government of Eritrea to end its use of arbitrary detention and torture of its citizens. Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Human Rights Concern – Eritrea and the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project welcome this long overdue attention paid to the widespread and systematic human rights violations continuing in Eritrea for over a decade.
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