Paper long abstract:

Author: Solomon Berhane

The paper deals with the activities and roles that have been played by the international community in the protection of human rights and the impacts and effectiveness of such activities on the lives of those people whose rights are violated. There have been some efforts and activities from organization such as the Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other UN organs in the form of revealing the human rights violations in Eritrea and accusing and exposing the government of Eritrea to the external world. The Eritrean government has been, on the one hand, denying the existence of such violations of human rights and, on the other hand, justifying for the current human rights situation in Eritrea. The efforts by the international organization neither brought about the necessary changes or improvement in the human rights situation in country nor led to any practical solutions to the Eritrean people. The paper will elucidate as to why such efforts have not being effective in improving the human rights situation in the country and will shed light into some of the possible initiatives which should be considered for positive outcome.