Asmara, 01 May 2021 – May 1st - International Workers Day was celebrated today within the confines of COVID-19, at the Head Quarters of the National Confederation of Eritrean Workers under the theme: "Labor for Greening Campaign". At the event, only
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Keren, 29 April 2021- The International Day of Workers, 1 May, has been observed at regional level in Keren city on 27 April under the theme “Labor for Greening Campaign”.
Speaking at the event, Mr. Atobrhan Gebrat, head of the National Confederation of Eritrean Workers in Anseba region, said that last year the Confederation branch has been engaged in cooperation with stakeholders in ensuring the health workers including raising the awareness of workers on COVID-19 pandemic as well as distribution of sanitizers and masks to the working force.
Pointing out that the International Workers Day is the day in which workers evaluate their work performances and design future plan, Mr. Mohammed Jabir, head of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare branch in the region, said that strong effort is being exerted to ensure the health and rights of workers as well as conducive working condition with a view to boost productivity.
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Everyone wants to go to work and go back home safely. But the outbreak of COVID-19 has made the day-to-day living conditions of people around the world miserable. An escalation of the infection by COVID-19 has been compelling policymakers and task forces to take immediate and necessary measures to curb the transmission of this fast-spreading disease and to deter the subsequent increase in the death rate. The safe return of workers means saving society by preventing the spread of the disease.
Eritrea acted early on when a handful of cases were confirmed before the disease could pose a serious threat to the lives and livelihoods of the people. The country twice announced strict lockdowns. Although the manufacturing sector, agriculture, commercial enterprises, industrial activities, and other production activities were allowed to operate fully. Some service rendering organizations have been reopened and this month schools and public transport have resumed their operations. A gra
Background and Overview
In April 2009, the UNHCR issued a 35-page booklet entitled “UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs for Asylum-Seekers from Eritrea”.
UNHCR further published the second Guidelines on 20 April 2011. This 37-page document was essentially a replica of the first publication in terms of format, language and substantive contents albeit few, insignificant and inconsequential, updates.
UNHCR’s purported purpose in issuing these guidelines was to “assist decision-makers, including UNHCR staff, Governments and private practitioners in assessing the protection needs of Eritrean asylum-seekers”. The organization flaunted these guidelines as “authoritative legal interpretations of the refugee criteria in respect of specific groups on the basis of objectively assessed social, political, economic, security, human rights and humanitarian conditions in the country of origin concerned”. It further asserted tha