A/HRC/RES/29/18 Expressing deep concern at the commission’s findings that systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations have been and are being committed by the Government of Eritrea, and that the violations in the areas of extrajudicial executions, torture and illtreatment, including sexual violence and abuse, national service and forced labour may constitute crimes against humanity, Noting with grave concern the continued use by the Government of Eritrea of arbitrary arrest and detention, including incommunicado detention and in life-threatening conditions, of persons for suspected of evasion of national service, attempting to flee the country or having a family member who has fled, inability to produce identity documents, being a journalist, exercising the right to freedom of religion, being perceived as critical of the Government, and of those who return to the country, as well as those detained in the aftermath of the takeover on 21 January 2013 of the building housing the Ministry of Information, Expressing grave concern at the widespread use of indefinite conscription into national service, a system that constitutes forced labour, and the reported forced conscription of children under the age of 18 into military service, and regretting that the fear and experience of a lengthy national service causes large numbers of Eritreans to leave the country, Expressing grave concern also at reports that the Government of Eritrea is also forcing persons to participate in its citizen militia, Deeply concerned that the situation of human rights in Eritrea incites an everincreasing number of Eritreans to leave their country, often facing risks of abduction, abhorrent physical and mental abuse and other ill-treatment on their migration path, abused by smugglers and human traffickers, Reaffirming that everyone has the right to leave any country, including his or her own, and to return to his or her country, Noting the participation of Eritrea in the second cycle of the universal periodic review and its approval of several recommendations, while regretting the lack of implementation by Eritrea of the recommendations made at its first review, Recalling the obligations of Eritrea under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1. Welcomes the report of the commission of inquiry on the situation of human rights in Eritrea,1 and notes the importance of the work of the commission of inquiry and the information it has collected in support of future accountability efforts; 2. Also welcomes the third report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea;2 3. Strongly condemns the 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 extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, torture, arbitrary and incommunicado detentions, and human rights 1 2 2 A/HRC/29/42. A/HRC/29/41.