Conscripts are often subjected to inhuman and degrading punishment, including torture, without recourse.
Discharge from national service is arbitrary and procedures opaque. Conscientious objection is not recognized it is punished. The government continued to conscript Eritreans, mostly men and unmarried women, indefinitely into military or civil service for low pay and with no say in their profession or work location. Indefinite Military Conscription and Forced Labor
EDITRA COUNTRY CODE
In December 2021, it opposed the establishment of a commission of human rights experts on Ethiopia ( ICHREE) to investigate abuses by all parties in the Tigray conflict.Įritrea’s 2015 penal code punishes homosexual conduct with five to seven years in prison. However, this did not result in reforms of its oppressive policies, according to the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea.Įritrea continued to refuse to cooperate with key UN and African Union rights mechanisms, including by denying access to the UN special rapporteur. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did not report any information on vaccination campaigns in Eritrea.Įritrea was re-elected, in late 2021 to the United Nations Human Rights Council on an African group non-competitive slate. In September, it reportedly recalled reservists (up to the age of 55) in anticipation of renewed fighting alongside Ethiopian security forces in Tigray.Įritrean forces remained in parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray region where they have continued to commit serious violations, including mass arbitrary detentions, and pillage and rape of Tigrayans in Western Tigray zone. The government has taken no steps to end its widespread forced labor and conscription, instead, reports of mass roundups ( giffas in Tigrinya) and forced conscription to fill the army’s ranks increased in the second half of the year as fighting resumed in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Elections have never been held in the country since it gained independence in 1993, and the government has never implemented the 1997 constitution guaranteeing civil rights and limiting executive power. In 2001, Isaias closed all independent newspapers and arrested 10 journalists held incommunicado to date. Eritrea continued to negatively impact the rights environment in the Horn of Africa region.Įritrea is a one-man dictatorship under unelected President Isaias Afewerki, with no legislature, no independent civil society organizations or media outlets, and no independent judiciary. Eritrea’s government continued to severely repress its population, imposing restrictions on freedom of expression, opinion, and faith, and restricting independent scrutiny by international monitors.
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