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27 February 2025

Agenda Item 2 – Enhanced Interactive Dialogue on Eritrea with the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Eritrea

NGO: Jubilee Campaign
Speaker: Elizabeth Chyrum
Title: The situation of human rights in Eritrea
Date: 27 February 2025

Thank you, Mr President,

Jubilee Campaign and Human Rights Concern Eritrea thanks the Panelists.

Eritrea was a member of this Council for six years, yet this brought no human rights improvements. It has participated in every UPR cycle, but failed to implement accepted recommendations. While it has ratified some international conventions, none have been meaningfully realised, making them empty commitments, as the country’s human rights situation continues to deteriorate.

The National Assembly last convened in February 2002, 23 years ago, leaving the country without a functioning legislative body. The 1997 constitution remains unimplemented, and there is no independent judiciary, free press, or religious freedom.

Fundamental rights are ignored, while arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and torture in secret prisons are widespread. Thousands have been languishing in over 360 prisons for years without due legal process.

Countless citizens, including children, remain trapped in indefinite National Service with no way out. This has fuelled a mass exodus, forcing many to risk trafficking, abuse, and further mistreatment, highlighting the desperate conditions Eritreans face daily.

Eritrea remains one of the world’s most repressive countries. The international community must remain vigilant, demand accountability and real change, and stand in solidarity with the Eritrean people in their fight for freedom, justice, and dignity.

Thank you.

Originally posted here: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k19/k19...
Summary of the statement: https://jubileecampaign.org/call-for-...

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