Human Rights
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News: Despite several pleas, draft deadline to extend UN rights experts’ Ethiopia mandate expires
Addis Abeba – Despite repeated please from rights organizations worldwide, the deadline to submit a draft motion to extend the…
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News: Amnesty International urges immediate access to independent investigators, media to Amhara region
A street in Bahir Dar, the capital of Amhara regional state. Photo: ENA Addis Abeba – Rights group Amnesty International…
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News: Members of Congress call for sanctions on individuals responsible for human rights abuses in Western Tigray
Amhara region police forces patrolling parts of Western Tigray. (Photo: Archive/Screenshot) Addis Abeba – Three members of the US Congress have written…
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News: Security crisis in Gambella region severely impacts human rights, needs urgent attention – EHRC
Addis Abeba – The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) draws attention to the security crisis in Gambella region saying that…
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News: Human Rights Watch urges Ethiopia to release seven Oromo opposition figures held without charges for nearly three years
The seven imprisoned OLF leaders (Photo: Social Media) Addis Abeba – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for the immediate release…
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News: Conflicts, attacks in Oromia, security situation in Amhara regions “extremely concerning” says EHRC in annual report
Daniel Bekele PhD, Chief Commissioner, EHRC (Right), Rakeb Mesele, Deputy Chief Commissioner, EHRC (Left) (Photo: Addis Standard) Addis Abeba –…
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News: Rights groups raise deep concern over US backtracking on Ethiopia human right violations commitment
Displaced people from Western Tigray stand outside a school where they are sheltering in Mekele, Ethiopia, February 24, 2021 (Photo:…
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In-depth: How on record yet covered up ‘extrajudicial killings’ by uniformed gov’t forces continue unabated
Screenshots of incidents where government forces killed civilian on the record (Screenshots:Addis Standard) By Natnael Fite @NatieFit Addis Abeba –…
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News: Ethiopia says HRW report on Ethnic cleansing in western Tigray ‘distorted and misleading’, seeks to achieve ‘political agenda’
Photo: IDP families and children at Primary School in Mekelle IDP center, April 15, 2021. © UNICEF Ethiopia/2021/Mulugeta Ayene Addis…
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News: Rights Commission urges immediate halt to ever-increasing enforced disappearance of people in Ethiopia
Handcuffed person (Image: EHRC) Addis Abeba – The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has urged the need to immediately halt…
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