At the 41st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council starting today, states will discuss whether to keep Eritrea in the spotlight. A new report from the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights ...

Hundreds of Eritreans demonstrate in front of the African Union headquarters in Ethiopia, in support of a UN Inquiry report and asking for measures to be taken against Eritrea, in 2015 [File: Nichole ...

I am delivering this explanation of vote on resolution L.15 on the human rights situation in Eritrea. At the outset, allow me to welcome the Joint Declaration of Peace and Friendship between Eritrea ...

WASHINGTON - The top U.S. diplomat for Africa welcomed a rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea ending two decades of hostility but said concerns over Eritrea’s human rights record hindered ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Eritrea’s foreign ministry is calling accusations by a U.N. commission that its government is responsible for systematic and widespread human rights violations and possible ...

GENEVA -The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday rejected a bid by Eritrea to end the mandate of a U.N. expert investigating alleged abuses in the country, in a relief to Western diplomats ...