{"id":30697,"date":"2021-12-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/reports\/oral-statement-33rd-special-session-of-the-human-rights-council-on-the-5515\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:36:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:36:55","slug":"oral-statement-33rd-special-session-of-the-human-rights-council-on-the-5515","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/reports\/oral-statement-33rd-special-session-of-the-human-rights-council-on-the-5515\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral statement: 33rd special session of the Human Rights Council on the situation in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1db8009fd9808154493af18cbace6724.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Organisation:<\/b>Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Speaker:<\/b>Claire Denman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color:black\">Thank you, Madam President,<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color:black\">CSW welcomes the convening of this Special Session.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color:black\">The humanitarian and human rights situation remains critical. CSW notes the disturbing findings of the OHCHR-EHRC Joint Investigation, despite its limitations, and that<\/span>since the end of its reporting period in June, the situation has worsened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We remain deeply concerned by continuing reports of starvation being used as a weapon of war, and of mass incarceration of Tigrayan civilians, including infants, on the basis of ethnicity<span style=\"color:black\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are also concerned by reports of arms sales to Ethiopia which effectively prolong a war that increasingly seems unwinnable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color:black\">The immediate priorities, therefore, are a ceasefire, unhindered humanitarian relief, and the release of those unjustly detained.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color:black\">But Madam President, to recover from this conflict, Ethiopia will also require accountability and justice.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color:black\">CSW urges the Council to establish and support the immediately operationalisation of a genuinely independent mechanism<\/span>to thoroughly investigate alleged violations of international human rights, humanitarian and refugee law committed since 3 November 2020, to collect evidence on the most serious violations committed<span style=\"color:black\"> during the conflict, and to prepare files for criminal prosecution by a national, regional or international tribunal.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We further call on the international community to initiate an arms embargo, and to impose targeted sanctions on military and political persons and entities identified as complicit in human rights abuses &#8211; particularly on the leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea who bear ultimate responsibility for the appalling violations that are being committed with impunity by their respective forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before inclusive national dialogue and reconciliation can occur, Ethiopia needs independent accountability and judicial processes. CSW urges this Council to meet this need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisation: Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) Speaker: Claire Denman<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44692,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[159,164],"class_list":["post-30697","reports","type-reports","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-international-arenas","regions-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36753,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30697\/revisions\/36753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30697"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=30697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}