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(e)
The violations of the rights of the child, including but not limited to the
forced military conscription of children;
(f)
The widespread use of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment and the use of places of detention that fall far short of international
standards, including underground cells and metal shipping containers;
(g)
The shoot-to-kill practice employed on the borders of Eritrea to stop Eritrean
citizens seeking to flee their country;
(h)
Any violation by the Government of Eritrea of its international human rights
obligations in connection with the collection of taxes outside Eritrea from its nationals;
(i)
The lack of cooperation with international and regional human rights
mechanisms by Eritrea;
3.
Calls upon the Government of Eritrea, without delay:
(a)
To end its use of arbitrary detention of its citizens, and to end the use of
torture or other cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment or punishment;
(b)
To account for and release all political prisoners, including members of the
“G-15” and journalists;
(c)
To ensure free and fair access to an independent judicial system for those
detained, and to improve prison conditions, including by prohibiting the use of underground
cells and shipping containers to hold prisoners, ending the use of secret detention centres
and secret courts and the practice of incommunicado detention, and allowing regular access
to prisoners for relatives, legal advocates, medical care and other competent and legally
authorized authorities and institutions;
(d)
To put an end to the system of indefinite national service, to provide for
conscientious objection to military service, and to end the compulsory practice of all
children undertaking their final year of schooling in a military training camp;
(e)
To allow human rights and humanitarian organizations to operate in Eritrea
without fear or intimidation, and to facilitate the full implementation of the Strategic
Partnership Cooperation Framework for 2013-2016 signed by the Government of Eritrea
and the United Nations on 28 January 2013;
(f)
To respect everyone’s right to freedom of expression and to freedom of
thought, conscience and religion or belief, and the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly
and of association;
(g)
To enhance the promotion and protection of women’s rights, including by
taking further measures to combat harmful practices, such as early marriage and female
genital mutilation;
(h)
To implement the recommendations accepted during its universal periodic
review, to report on progress made and to cooperate fully with the Human Rights Council
and the universal periodic review during its second cycle;
(i)
To end “guilt-by-association” policies that target family members of those
who evade national service or seek to flee Eritrea;
(j)
To cooperate fully with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights, in accordance with its international human rights obligations, by, inter
alia, allowing access to a mission by the Office as requested by the High Commissioner, the
human rights treaty bodies, all mechanisms of the Human Rights Council and with all
international and regional human rights mechanisms;
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