Yesterday, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) renewed the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on human rights in Eritrea. But the renewing the mandate shouldn't have been up for discussion in the first place, given the unanimous support for it in 2018 and, more importantly, Eritrea's dire and unchanged rights situation.
Yet despite all that, the traditional drafters of the Eritrea resolution, Somalia and Djibouti, declined to even present a resolution because of their improved political relations with Eritrea. Likewise, several member states blocked the European Union from presenting a text. Eventually a group of countries - Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands - stepped in to ensure this important international oversight mechanism wasn't lost.
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