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Ethiopia: Letter – To All Human Beings Who Are Human, By Wubushet Taye (Zeway...

document “Discussing these types of issues is forbidden,” said the warder rudely and added, “You are only allowed to discuss family matters”. You might suspect that these words were spoken by one of...

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Discrimination Against Homosexuality: A Law Without Reason

by Tony Osborg While it is without doubt that majority of Nigerians have agreed probably for the first on a particular topic and have condemned homosexuality on certain grounds, only few, I mean very...

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Mining Corruption in Ethiopia: A Reply to Clare Short

By Alemayehu G Mariam “As I look around the EITI implementing countries, I do not accept that the situation for civil society in Ethiopia is worse than a great many of them.” That was the didactic...

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I am a gay man – There is nothing un-African about me

Frank Mugisha Growing up in Uganda, homosexuality was not something we talked about much. I knew I was gay from a young age, and I came out to those close to me when I was a teenager in the early 90s....

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Ethiopia: EITI or Clare’s Corruption Club? By Alemayehu G Mariam

Last week, Clare Short, Chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), succeeded in bullying the EITI Board members into voting to admit the ruling regime in Ethiopia into her Club....

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Amara or Amhara – What is in a name and does it matter at all?

By Abebe Haregewoin (MD, Ph.D.) Have you ever tried to call an Arab an Ahrab, or a Tigrean a Tihgrian, or an Oromo an Orhomo? Or ever tried to call somebody called Berhanu, Behrhanu etc..? Try any of...

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Ethiopia: Alemneh Mekonnen and his ethnic obscenities

By Abebe Haregewoin (MD,PhD) As the Vice President of the Amara region, Ato Alemneh Mekonnen is presumably and officially the second most important Amara in the world. He is putatively and by default...

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Ethiopian farmer sues UK over foreign aid handouts to brutal regime

AN ETHIOPIAN farmer is using taxpayers’ money to sue Britain because he says that foreign aid sent to his country is supporting a brutal regime that ruined his life. The man – known as Mr O – told his...

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Eritrea: Anti National Service Slavery Campaign Welcomes UN Findings

Stop National Service Slavery in Eritrea Campaign The Stop National Service Slavery in Eritrea Campaign, welcomes the United Nations Special Rapporteur comments on the situation of human rights in...

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Ethiopia: Dictators’ insatiable lust for power

By Gezahegn Abebe (Lena, Norway ) The ruling TPLF, aka woyane regime, in Ethiopia commits gross human rights violations in broad daylight on a daily basis, and this is a case well documented by Human...

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Dark secrets of foreign investment in Ethiopia and tears of the poor

by Nathnael Abate (Norway) The rapid growth of world economy has resulted in strong partnership between countries, multinational companies and cooperates. This made the greatest gateway for...

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How to tackle the DRC’s complex anti-impunity agenda

By Sharanjeet Parmar To date, there have been no effective responses to impunity for perpetrators of international crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which have been on going since the...

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Ethiopia tightens its grip on media ahead of 2015 elections

“The current regime follows this pattern: immediately before elections, they start to muzzle every critical voice,” protests Endalk Chala, a co-founder and member of the Ethiopian blogging collective...

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Ekiti Election: HURIDAC Calls for a Human Rights Friendly Environment

By Ayodele Ameen A civil society group, Human Rights Advancement, Development and Advocacy Centre (HURIDAC)is calling for “a human rights friendly environment before, during and after the Ekiti...

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Eritrean Campaign Successfully Highlighted the Concern over the Indefinite...

Eritrean Campaign Successfully Highlighted the Concern over the Indefinite National service in Eritrea at the UN Human Rights Council’s 26th Session. (Geneva 20-06-2014) Campaigners from across Europe...

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Eritrea faces UN human rights probe – BBC

The UN’s Human Rights Council (HRC) has set up a commission of inquiry into Eritrea, seen as one of the world’s most repressive states. The three-member panel will report back in one year. In a...

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Sweden: Eritrean President Afewerki Reported for Crimes Against Humanity

By Gianluca Mezzofiore Eritrean president Isaias Afewerki and several other ministers have been reported to the police for crimes against humanity in Sweden thanks to a new law that allows such crimes...

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HRW: UK Aid Should Respect Rights

A UK High Court ruling allowing judicial review of the UK aid agency’s compliance with its own human rights policies in Ethiopia is an important step toward greater accountability in development...

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Rally to protest the Human Rights Violations & lack of freedom in Ethiopia /...

While Africa is known for its abundant natural resources and fertile lands, over 90% of the continent’s citizens are forced to live below absolute poverty because of tyrannical rulers that enrich...

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The Ethiopian Diaspora: A cash cow of TPLF?

By Yilma Bekele What are the ways the Diaspora help the TPLF Government to rule with an iron fist and abuse our people and country? The Diaspora money is cash with no strings attached. The Diaspora is...

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