Overview

• Human Rights Council members dismissed Eritrea’s resolution by a 25-to-4 vote with 18 abstentions and extended the special rapporteur’s mandate for another year.
• Eritrea continues to bar UN investigators and has vowed never to cooperate with the mandate’s work.
• The rapporteur’s latest findings highlighted potential crimes against humanity in Eritrea, including enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention and indefinite national service.
• Eritrea’s government claimed its rights shortcomings were non-systemic and a result of development constraints, describing the mandate as unjust.
• Rights groups DefendDefenders and the EU lauded the renewal as key to preventing impunity, while Iran, Sudan, Russia and China sided with Eritrea.