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  • Hilton Hotels Hosting Event for Group Accused of Committing Crimes Against Humanity

    Hilton Hotels Hosting Event for Group Accused of Committing Crimes Against Humanity

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    PRESS RELEASE Hilton Hotels hosting event for group accused of committing crimes against humanity Eritrean Americans are urging Hilton Hotel to cancel an event it is hosting for representatives of one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world,  the PFDJ, Eritrea’s ruling party.   The event is set to take place at the Hilton Houston…

  • Despite the Rogue States, HRC Is Still A Good Thing

    Despite the Rogue States, HRC Is Still A Good Thing

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    The government of Eritrea, which was elected to the Human Rights Council (HRC) by default and in contradiction to the UN’s minimum requirements for a country to join the HRC, has issued an editorial  expressing its pleasure and gratitude for being allowed to join this club with no standards. The government further describes its dismal…

  • How Eritrea Benefits From Institutionalized Short Memory

    How Eritrea Benefits From Institutionalized Short Memory

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    [spider_facebook id=”4″] Whenever the Government of Isaias Afwerki is challenged to meet the demands of a UN-impaneled body, whether that is the Special Rapporteur or the Commission of Inquiry, it has a uniform reply: we are engaged with the UN via the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and we reject targeted mandates. And, in that regard,…

  • PFDJ’s Eritrea: Neither Boots Nor Pushkin

    PFDJ’s Eritrea: Neither Boots Nor Pushkin

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    [spider_facebook id=”4″]As widely reported, the UN Commission of Inquiry which was set up to investigate the human rights situation in Eritrea has last week announced that Eritrean authorities have committed crimes against humanity, which, inter alia, includes crimes of enslavement, unlawful imprisonment, enforced disappearance, torture, persecution, rape and murder in a widespread and systematic manner…

  • Eritrean Regime’s Strategy To Deal With Geneva

    Eritrean Regime’s Strategy To Deal With Geneva

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    [spider_facebook id=”4″] While Eritrea has been under UN sanctions since 2009, it is the potential act of another UN agency, that of the Geneva-based Human Rights Council (HRC), that has been keeping the ruling clique in Eritrea worried. The UN’s HRC, which mandated the Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea (CoIE) to conduct an investigation on…

  • Government of Eritrea and the Commission of Inquiry

    Government of Eritrea and the Commission of Inquiry

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    [spider_facebook id=”4″] The mouthpiece of the Government of Eritrea, shabait.com, has published a Ministry of Foreign Affairs press release to complain about the timing of the release of the report by the Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea (CoIE.)  The statement goes on to describe such a release, whose timing it considers “credible information” as an…