The 47th United Nations Human Rights Council’s Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group has adopted the recommendations section of the draft report on the human rights records of Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian delegation, led by Belayihun Yirga Kifle, State Minister, Ministry of Justice, presented the country’s human rights records to the council last Tuesday.
According to the Troika, which comprised the representatives of Algeria, Bangladesh, and the Netherlands, 140 representatives of the member states delivered their statements and sent 10 advanced questions.
Mr Raifik Mouadache, Counselor of the Permanent Mission of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria to the UN Office in Geneva (UNOG), on behalf of the Troika, said that Ethiopia has received 360 recommendations in the UPR session.
“The recommendations will be examined, and the responses provided not later than the 58th sessions of the Human Rights Council,” Mouadache reminded.
Gravely concerned about human rights violations in Ethiopia’s Amhara and Oromia, says the U.S.
In Tuesday’s session of the council, representatives of the member states forwarded recommendations to the Ethiopian delegations to pay attention to the international conventions on enforced disappearance, executions, extrajudicial killings, torture, gender-based violence, recruitment and use of childhood soldiers, freedom of speech and expression including freedom of assembly, impunity, victim-based judicial process, ensuring accountability, and allowing independent investigations of the human rights violations in the country.
Ambassador Michèle Taylor, the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council, expressed her grave concern over the human rights violations in Ethiopia’s Amhara and Oromia regions in Tuesday’s session.
“We are gravely concerned about reports of human rights violations in Amhara, Oromia, and elsewhere by restricting fundamental rights throughout the country,” she stressed.
Ethiopia, as one of the 47 members of the Human Rights Council, is subjected to the UPR Working Group’s review of human rights records.
Before the current session, Ethiopia’s first, second, and third UPR reviews took place in December 2009, May 2014, and May 2019.
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