Somalia: End War Crimes to Help Tackle Famine
Abuses by All Sides Contribute to Current Crisis HRW – Press releas (Nairobi) – All parties to Somalia’s armed conflict have committed serious violations of the laws of war that are contributing to the country’s humanitarian catastrophe, Human Rights Watch said in a report released 14 August 2011. All sides…
Somalia: End War Crimes to Help Tackle Famine
Abuses by All Sides Contribute to Current Crisis HRW – Press releas (Nairobi) – All parties to Somalia’s armed conflict have committed serious violations of the laws of war that are contributing to the country’s humanitarian catastrophe, Human Rights Watch said in a report released 14 August 2011. All sides…
WEF Should Petition Ethiopia over Oromo Human Rights
Kenyan Magazine: The following is a letter from Kasembeli Albert, the Editor of the Kenyan magazine East Africa Investor, a regional financial magazine. Albert has recently written articles on the Oromo; the articles were published on the Kenyan magazine, The African Executive: Oromo Liberation Front: Who is Fooling Who? and…
Kidnappings and Disappearances of University Students
Ethiopia – HRLHA Urgent Action and Appeal Public – August 8, 2011, It has been a nightmare for families that the whereabouts of their children is not known since the end of the school year of 2011. Among Oromo students left their campuses up on the closure of the Universities…
Reign of terror in Maikelawi detention centre
August 4th, 2011 | by Lucy Keating | Published in All Stories, Ethiopia Aid Exposed Maikelawi is a police detention facility in the centre of the Ethiopian capital. It is mentioned time and again in any conversation about human rights abuses. Voices of the tortured For the Ethiopians’ it is the ‘African Guantanamo…
Britain and the EU have increased aid to Ethiopia while ignoring repeated diplomatic warnings of human rights abuse and concerns that Western funding is being used as a tool of repression by the country’s regime.
By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels 04 Aug 2011 An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and BBC Newsnight has found that as Ethiopia is hit by drought and famine, communities are being denied basic food, seed and fertiliser for failing to support Meles Zenawi, the country’s authoritarian leader. Senior Brussels…
Ethiopia A Long Way To Go In Achieving Human Rights Implementation
Geneva, 12th July 2011 – Ethiopia was reviewed on 11th and 12th July 2011 by the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the implementation of the Internation al Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Human Rights Committee welcomed the initial report on the implementation of the International Covenant on…