The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia with a mandate to “to conduct thorough investigations into allegations of violations and abuses of international human rights law and violations of international humanitarian law and international refugee law in Ethiopia, committed since 3 November 2020 by all parties to the conflict, including the possible gender dimensions of such violations and abuses“, “to establish the facts and circumstances surrounding the alleged violations and abuses, to collect and preserve evidence, and, where possible, to identify those responsible, and to make such information accessible and usable in support of ongoing and future accountability efforts” and to “provide guidance on transitional justice, including accountability, reconciliation and healing“
Other resolutions are:
“the Government of Ethiopia to implement the state of emergency declared on 2 November 2021 in a manner that respects the principles of strict necessity, proportionality and non-discrimination, and to publish the list of detainees and guarantee the right to visits in detention centres, while expressing deep concern at reports about the targeting, arrests and detention of people based upon their ethnicity, the poor detention conditions of those arrested, the allegations of ill-treatment in detention and the lack of judicial review, and at reports about the increase of incidents of hate speech by all parties, including on social media” (PP21) and it urges “all parties to the conflict to end the deliberate targeting of civilians, including on the basis of their ethnicity or gender, to refrain from incitement to hatred and violence, to avoid further damage to critical civilian infrastructure, to end any measures that may exacerbate the already acute humanitarian crisis, in particular, to remove restrictions on access to humanitarian relief and to cease attacks against objects indispensable to the survival of the population including crops, livestock and medicines” (OP3).
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