ሰልፊ ዲሞክራሲ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ (ሰዲህኤ) ናብተን ኣብዚ ቀረባ ግዜ ናይ ቃል ጸብጻብ  ዘቕርባ ናይ ሕቡራት ሃገራት ፍልይቲ ተኸታታሊት ሰብእዊ መሰል ኤርትራ፡ ጓል ቺለ፡ ወይዘሮ ዳኒየላ ክራቨትዝ መዘክር ኣቕሪቡ። ኣብዚ መዘክሩ እዘን ሓዳስ ተኸታታሊት ጉዳይ ሰብኣዊ መሰል ኤርትራ ኣብ ልዕሊ እቲ ዘይተዓጻጸፍን ጨቋንን ስርዓት ኤርትራ ጽኑዕ ምክትታል ክገብራ ዘለዎ ትጽቢት ገሊጹ።

እዘን ሓዳስ ክኢላ፡ ተኸታታሊት ሰብኣዊ መሰል ሕቡራት ሃገራት ኤርትራ፡ ኣብቲ ካብ 25 ለካቲት ክሳብ 22 መጋቢት 2019 ኣብ ጀነቫ ዝካየድ መበል 40 ርክብ ባይቶ ሰብኣዊ መሰል ሕቡራት ሃገራት ናይ መጀመርያ ናይ ቃል ጸብጻበን ክቕርባ ትጽቢት ኣሎ። እዚ ብ31 ጥሪ 2019 ዝተላእከ ናይ ሰዲህኤ መዘክር፡ ኣብ ቅድሚ እተን ፍልይቲ ተኸታታሊት ዘሎ ከቢድ ሓላፍነት፡ ምስቲ ካብ ኤርትራ ሓበሬታ ናይ ምርካብ ጸገም ከቢድ ምዃኑ ከም ዝርዳእ ጠቒሱ፡ ምስቲ  ወኪል ናይቲ ኣብ ኤርትራ ዘሎ ጨቋኒ ኣካል ብዘይሕፍረት ብ28 ጥሪ 2019 ኣብ ኣድማሳዊ እዋናዊ መድረኻዊ ዳስህሳስ ዘቕረቦ መስሓቕን ጻዕዳ ሓሶትን ጸብጻብ ኣዛሚዱ ገሊጽዎ።

እዚ መልእኽቲ ናይ ቅድም ተኸታታሊት ሰብኣዊ መሰል ኤርትራ ወይዘሮ ሸይላ ኪታሩዝ ኣብ ዝሓለፉ 6 ዓመታት ዋላኳ እንተዘይተተግብረ፡ ናይቲ ስርዓት ግህሰት ሰብኣዊ መሰል ኣብ ምቅላዕን ሕብረተሰብ ዓለም ንውሳነታትን ለበዋታትን ኮሚሽ ሰብኣዊ መሰል ሕቡራት ሃገራት ንከተግብር ኣብ ምድፋእን ንዘበርከቶኦ ኣስተዋጸኦ ኣመስጊኑ።

መዘክር ሰዲህኤ፡ እዘን ኣብ ዝሓለፈ ጥቅምቲ ብባይቶ ሰብእዊ መሰል ሕቡራት ሃገራት  ዝተመዘዛ ወይዘሮ ክራቨትዝ፡ ኣብ መጻኢ ግዜአን ኣብ ኤርትራ ዝረአ ዘሎ ደረት ዘየብሉ ግህሰት ሰብኣዊ መሰል  ክውገድን ተሓታትነት ክሰፍንን ኣብ ምግባር ክዕወታ ዘለዎ ተስፋ ኣስፊሩ።

 ኣብ መወዳእታ መልእኽቱ፡  ሰልፊ ዲሞክራሲ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ (ሰዲህኤ) ምስ ኩሎም ደለይቲ ፍትሒ ኤርትራውያን ሓቢሩ፡   ነዚ ኣሰቃቒ  ኩነታት ሰብኣዊ መሰል  ኤርትራ ናብ ዝሓሸ ደረጃ ንምምጻኡ ንክዕወታ ዓቕሙ ዝፈቕዶ ክተሓባበር ድልዊ ምዃኑ ገሊጹ።

Saturday, 02 February 2019 06:43

Harnnet Magazine Issue #65

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Saturday, 02 February 2019 06:36

Harnnet Magazine Issue #65

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Under a mechanism called UPR (Universal Periodic Review), UN member states report every five years  to the UN Human Rights Council  on what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situations in respective their countries in fulfilling their human rights obligations. They also mention the challenges they faced while trying to take action. When its time came to present something in the afternoon of 28 January, the Eritrean regime – represented by the same old Ambassador Tesfamichael Gerhatu - had no factual achievements to report. Instead, regime representative had to go back to the same old bald lies presented in its previous two UPR reports.

Eritrean Regime Continued its Limitless Lies at UPR reporting 1

If any, what one would call “successes” it had to report included the signing of the Ethiopian Prime Minister’s initiative for peace accord, and the UNDP-UNICEF projects for children and women in Eritrea. That was all. Almost none of previous recommendations were achieved.

Unsatisfied with what Eritrea had to report, member countries listed additional 261 recommendations for the Asmara regime to act towards improving human rights in Eritrea. These were in addition to the myriad recommendations of the Council and the UN Special Rapporteur which were not acted upon.  

Many of the 89 member states that made statements during the session, did not find it useful to repeat their old critical viewpoints and strong condemnations of the failures of the Eritrean regime, and instead “praised”  the peace accord with Ethiopia and listed their sharp recommendations.

The usual Eritrea supporters like North Korea, Myanmar, China, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan and Pakistan praised the “Eritrean government for its endeavors despite many challenges.” None of them could mention those non-existent endeavors.

The working group meetings of this 32nd session of the UPR mechanism were held between 21 January and 1 February. The UN Human Rights Council will hold its 40th session between 25 February to 22 March 2019 during which time the new UN Special Rapporteur for Eritrea, Ms. Daniela Kravetz, is expected to report of what she had done since her election to the post last October.

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Eritrean Regime Continued its Limitless Lies at UPR reporting 2While serving as a humanitarian law expert on the Security Council mandated Panel of Experts on the Sudan from 2016 to 2018, Ms Kravetz conducted fact-finding missions to the Sudan and regional countries to investigate alleged violations by the parties to the conflict. Previously, she worked for over twelve years at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, first as a law clerk in Chambers and later as a prosecutor in the Office of the Prosecutor. Her prior experience includes working as a human rights officer in the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ms Kravetz has specialized in providing technical assistance and training to domestic institutions on the promotion of women’s rights, working as a consultant on projects aimed at addressing gender-based violence in several countries. She has served as international human rights and gender expert before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and is currently on the roster of international amicus curiae of the newly established Special Jurisdiction for Peace in Colombia. She is a graduate of the University of Chile (Chile) and the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). She was called to the bar in Chile in July 1996.

Mandate by the Human Rights Council

Human Rights Council resolution 35/35 extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea and requested the mandate-holder to continue as appropriate the follow-up on the implementation of the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry on human rights in Eritrea and her recommendations in her report, and to submit a and present a written report to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-eighth session, and to address and engage in an interactive dialogue with the General Assembly at its seventy-second session.

Individual complaints

In the discharge of her mandate, the Special Rapporteur on Eritrea has developed the information sheet below to facilitate the submission of information. Although communications are also considered when they are not submitted in the form of this model questionnaire, the Special Rapporteur would be grateful for receiving information tailored to her mandate. The objective of this questionnaire is to have access to precise information on alleged human rights violations in Eritrea. If any information contained in the questionnaire should be kept confidential please mark “CONFIDENTIAL” beside the relevant entry. Please do not hesitate to attach additional sheets, if the space provided is not sufficient.

Should you have any questions concerning the completion of this form, please feel free to contact the Special Rapporteur.

The questionnaire (English, Arabic, Tigrinya) should be filled out and sent to:
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea
c/o Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations at Geneva
8-14 avenue de la Paix
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
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E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (then please include in the subject box: Special Rapporteur on Eritrea).

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media Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki (left) and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (right) during a welcome ceremony in Khartoum, 11 June 2015.Photo: Ashraf Shazly/AFP
 

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has ordered the reopening of his country’s border with Eritrea. Sudan’s eastern border had been closed since last year following the announcement of a state of emergency in the regions of Kassala and North Kordofan.

“Politics can divide us but they [Eritreans] are still our brothers and relatives,” Bashir said, according to the AFP news agency.

Bashir made the announcement during a televised address for a rally in the regional capital Kassala. However, he did not provide more details on the decision.

The border was closed in January 2018 in line with a six-month state of emergency in Kassala and North Kordofan. The intention was to stop smuggling, control unlicensed vehicles and tackle human trafficking, the Xinhua news agency reported.

Bashir’s address in Kassala also touched on continuing protests in Sudan that have erupted in Khartoum and other cities since December.

“Changing the government or presidents cannot be done through WhatsApp or Facebook. It can be done only through elections,” Bashir told the crowd of supporters.

“It’s only the people who decide who will be president,” he added.

Protests started over increases in the price of bread, but have morphed into a more general dissatisfaction with Bashir and his government.

Human rights groups say more than 40 people have been killed in a crackdown by security forces on demonstrations since December. Sudanese officials say 30 people have died in protest-related violence.

Source=http://en.rfi.fr/africa/20190201-bashir-reopens-sudan-border-eritrea-and-dismisses-protests

New UN Special Rapporteur for HR in Eritrea to Present Her First Oral Report Soon

In a good-wishes memorandum to the new UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur for Eritrea, Ms Daniela Kravetz of Chile, the Eritrean People's Democratic Party (EPDP) expected her and the UN system to keep under close scrutiny the repressive and inflexible  regime in Asmara.

The new UN expert is expected to present her first oral report in a few weeks' time on the human rights situation to the 40th Session of the UN Human Rights Council due to meet in Geneva between 25 February and 22 March 2019

The EPDP message, dated 31 January, said it fully appreciate the difficulties ahead for her, difficulties that are compounded by her not having access to Eritrea in addition to the and "the blatant lies of the regime, as witnessed in the laughable contents of the third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report the regime representative shamelessly presented to the UN Human Rights Council on 28 January 2019."

The message alluded to the 6-year long hard work of her predecessor, Ms Sheila Keetharuth, who scored successes in recording the excessive abuses of the Eritrean regime in addition to her unachieved work to "encourage and mobilize the international community to push for the implementation of the resolutions and recommendations of the UN Human Rights Council."     

The EPDP memo hoped that Ms Kravetz, who was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council last October, would succeed in helping to stop the ongoing heinous human rights violations in the country by ensuring accountability for those responsible for serious human rights violations in Eritrea.  

The message concluded by stating that the EPDP alongside other Eritrean justice seekers are committed to do what is possible to help her mandate succeed in facing the "challenging tasks" of changing to the better the sad human rights situation in Eritrea

Friday, 01 February 2019 09:32

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Wednesday, 30 January 2019 23:02

A ‘roadmap’ for Eritrea – Ethiopia co-operation

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January 30, 2019 Ethiopia, News

Source: Borkena

Eritrea and Ethiopia roadmap for cooperation ready

“The next step for the two countries to sign agreements of overall bilateral cooperation and establish a joint-commission which will oversee implementation of the agreements.”
 
Ethiopia _ EritreaAbiy Ahmed (right) and Isayas Afeworki (left)

January 29,2019

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia said today that preparation of road-map to institutionalize cooperative relation between Ethiopia and Eritrea is ready.

Part of the purpose is to regulation the relation in a range of areas. Border trade, port usage, custom, immigration and transport are some of the areas to be regulated through legal frame works which is already drafted and discussed, according to a report by Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC).

Dr. Workeneh Gebeyehu disclosed the information during his appearance at the 22 regular session of House of People’s Representative today to present his six months of report regarding what the ministry has been doing.

The next step for the two countries to sign agreements of overall bilateral cooperation and establish a joint-commission which will oversee implementation of the agreements.

Eritrea’s Minister for Information, Yemane Gebremeskel, disclosed today that high level committee of Ethiopia and Eritrea is undertaking consultations to regulate trade and transport. From what Mr Yemane tweeted, the consultations between authorities of the two countries is informed by experiences during the trial periods in the last four months.

It is to be recalled that in late December 2018, Eritrea closed border along Zalambessa in Tigray – seemingly with intent to regulate the movement of people and trade to and from Eritrea.

The border between the two countries was reopened after two decades old “no peace -no war” relation was ended following rapprochement policy by the administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

Ethiopia says it is focusing on business diplomacy in the region as well and is working to improve relations with Djibouti,Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan.

January 30, 2019 News, UN

The full report can be accessed here.

Readers can judge whether they think it accurately reflects the currents situation in Eritrea.

Note, for example, how the right to Freedom of expression, association, assembly is described. The second sentence curtails and effectively nullifies the first.

“A fundamental principle in the transitional codes and proclamations is respect and protection of citizens’ right to lawful expression and opinion without interference. This demands collective responsibility to the nation and hence protection of national security, national values, public order and respect to others.”