Month: April 2013
- Commentary
Hugo Chavez’s constitutional legacy
William Partlett After his recent death, Hugo Chavez’s legacy is being widely debated. Those on the right see his death as a chance for Venezuelans to emerge from repressive dictatorship – for instance, Republican Senator Marco Rubio has argued that Chavez’s death is an opportunity to “turn the page on one of the darkest periods in its history and embark…
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Will there be a Russian Spring?
Not if Russian President Vladimir Putin can help it! Mark N. Katz But can he help it? Authoritarian rulers elsewhere have tried to prevent democratic revolution against them. Some have done this successfully – often for a long period of time – but have eventually succumbed. Other authoritarian regimes, by contrast, have managed to face down any and all opposition,…
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State legislatures launch their ‘War on Women’
Tomas Mega, U.S. correspondent Liberals thought the re-election of a Democratic President, a U.S. Senate majority and increasing Democratic numbers in the U.S. House of Representatives all meant good things for the rights of American women. Not so. With 30 states having Republican governors, and 27 states with Republican led legislatures, the post-2012 Presidential election cycle has begun with…
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Pan-Africanism and the youth in Africa: between now and then
The song of Pan-Africanism cannot be sung in today’s Africa the same way as it was half a century ago Eyob Balcha, special to Addis Standard Pan-Africanism then Think about a young African in the late 1950s or in the 1960s on the streets of Algiers, Accra or Arusha. You will get a characteristic picture of a…
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Sexual abuse against children in Ethiopia: Increasingly worrisome
Emnet Assefa In the second week of March this year, participants of a talk show on Sheger 102.1 FM radio station, the only private FM radio station in Ethiopia, picked up a troubling topic as their agenda: sexual abuses against children in Ethiopia. A frustrated representative from the Ethiopian Woman Lawyers Association (EWLA), who was part of the discussion, spoke…
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Ethiopia’s HDI:Improving, yet among the worst performers
Ethiopia’s HDI shows an impressing progress, but only when it is compared to its own figures of the past Bisrat Teshome, Special to Addis Standard, (@Bisree) For many years economists around the world have differed over what exactly constitutes good measures of human wellbeing and development. Owing to that the closest measurement agreed by many was the use of…
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Jessica Cox: Travelling to give hope to millions
Emnet Assefa Jessica Cox, 31, is born without arms, but the word ‘disabled’ is not in her dictionary; in fact an encounter with any of the things Jessica does makes the word, universally used, a big misfit to millions of people all over the world. According to the 2007 national population census conducted by the Ethiopian Central Statistics Agency, (CSA),…
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