The push from the EU and other Western countries demonstrates their frustration that a joint investigation between the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and the UN Human Rights Office, which resulted in a report last month did not go far enough. They presented a draft resolution to the council that would create a three-person team with a one-year mandate to monitor and report human rights violations in Ethiopia. “We never tolerate any human rights violation, regardless of who committed it. The story continuesThe joint report denounced the “terrible toll of civilians” in the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, as well as human rights violations and abuses by all sides. The rare collaboration of the United Nations human rights office with the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission has been hampered by intimidation and restrictions from the authorities, and has not visited some of the places worst affected by the war.

Source: Ethiopian News December 17, 2021 10:33 UTC