But my trip is still not over, because I don’t get the rights I am entitled to what the row over a Country-of-Origin-Report on Eritrea reveals about human rights politics

Dr Tanja Miller writes about Eritrea and the narratives around human rights.

The general truth about Eritrea as advanced by this lobby is of a dictatorship where it is simply impossible to live a normal life in any way, and where therefore people flee und endure horrific abuses while on the way either during their clandestine crossing of the border, or once out by human traffickers ultimately related to the long arm of the Eritrean state. This narrative, advanced by organisations like Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch, is not being recognised by anybody who actually visits Eritrea or for example volunteers to teach at one of its colleges, as a young academic based at a prestigious UK university has recently done for three months.

You can read the full post on her blog aspiration&revolution.

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