A/HRC/RES/32/24 Deeply concerned that the situation of human rights in Eritrea is a primary factor in the increasing number of Eritreans leaving their country, often facing risks of abduction, abhorrent physical and mental abuse and other ill-treatment on their migration path, including abuses by smugglers and human traffickers, while welcoming the participation of the Government of Eritrea in multilateral forums to discuss trafficking, Noting with deep concern the commission’s findings regarding persecution on both religious and ethnic grounds, including its assessment that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Eritrean officials have intentionally and severely deprived Eritrean Kunama and Afar persons of the enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms and that, at a minimum, the persecution of members of non-authorized religious denominations persists, 1. Welcomes with appreciation the work of the commission of inquiry on human rights in Eritrea,1 stresses the importance of the information it has collected in support of future accountability, and urges the Government of Eritrea to take immediate and concrete steps to implement its recommendations; 2. Welcomes the oral update of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-first session on the issue of unaccompanied Eritrean children, and recognizes the special protection needs of unaccompanied children fleeing Eritrea and who are subjected to violations and abuses of human rights such as, inter alia, trafficking, abduction for ransom, sexual violence and torture; 3. Condemns in the strongest terms the reported systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations that have been and are being committed by the Government of Eritrea in a climate of generalized impunity; 4. Condemns in particular the arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, enslavement, torture, killing, sexual violence, discrimination on the basis of religion and ethnicity and reprisals for the alleged conduct of family members, and the human rights violations in the context of indefinite national service, including those involving forced labour, the forced military conscription of children and sexual violence; 5. Expresses its deep concern at the severe restrictions on the rights to freedom to hold opinions and expression, freedom to seek, receive and impart information, liberty of movement, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and at the detention of journalists, human rights defenders, political actors, religious leaders and practitioners in Eritrea; 6. Reiterates its numerous calls upon the Government of Eritrea, without delay: (a) To end its use of arbitrary detention of persons in Eritrea, and to end the use of torture or other cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment or punishment; (b) To account for and release all political prisoners, including the members of the G-15 reform group and journalists; (c) To account for those detained in the aftermath of the takeover on 21 January 2013 of the building housing the Ministry of Information, and either to release them or to ensure that they are given a fair and transparent trial without undue delay and with full respect for minimum fair-trial guarantees; (d) To ensure free, fair and equal access to an independent and impartial court to challenge the lawfulness of any detention, and to improve prison conditions, including by prohibiting the use of underground cells and shipping containers to hold prisoners, ending the use of secret detention centres and the practice of incommunicado detention, allowing 3