A/HRC/RES/53/2 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 20 July 2023 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-third session 19 June–14 July 2023 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 12 July 2023 53/2. 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, both of 18 June 2007, resolution 91 and decisions 250/2002, 275/2003 and 428/12 of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights 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, Expressing grave concern at the ongoing human rights violations and abuses, as outlined by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea in his report,1 including those involving arbitrary arrest and incommunicado detention, enforced disappearance and torture, violation of the rights to freedom of expression, freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief, and freedom of peaceful assembly and association, Expressing grave concern also at the policy of forced and indefinite conscription into national/military service and at the grave human rights violations committed in the context of national service, Expressing grave concern further at the lack of transparency and accountability to date of the Government of Eritrea regarding reported violations and abuses committed by Eritrean military forces, 1. Welcomes the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea2 and his conclusions therein, and urges the Government of Eritrea to take immediate and concrete steps to implement all recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur; 2. Reiterates that all those responsible for human rights violations and abuses must be held accountable; 1 2 A/HRC/53/20. Ibid. GE.23-14215(E)