A/HRC/RES/56/17 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 16 July 2024 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-sixth session 18 June–12 July 2024 Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 11 July 2024 56/17. Situation of human rights in Eritrea The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant international human rights instruments, Recalling General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 of 18 June 2007, African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights resolution 91 and decisions 250/2002, 275/2003 and 428/12 and all previous Council resolutions on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, Noting the regional developments and their implications, including for human rights in Eritrea, Taking note of the concluding observations of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the combined second and third periodic reports of Eritrea under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Expressing regret at the continued lack of cooperation by the Government of Eritrea with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea and other special procedure mandate holders, while noting its previous indication that it would engage with a few United Nations human rights mechanisms, Expressing deep concern at the ongoing human rights violations and abuses, as reported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Special Rapporteur,1 including those involving arbitrary arrest and incommunicado detention, inhumane conditions of detention, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killings, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, forced labour and sexual and gender-based violence, as well as the persistent violations of the rights to freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief, and freedom of peaceful assembly and association, Expressing deep concern also at the policy of indefinite conscription into national/military service, the grave human rights violations committed in the context of 1 See A/HRC/56/24. GE.24-13024 (E)