Ethiopian newspaper reports tampering of its mail
Tampered mail sent to the Awramba Times.
New York, June 29, 2010—Ethiopia’s postal service should a conduct thorough and transparent investigation into the tampering of mail addressed to the country’s leading critical newspaper, the Commit...
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Ethiopia, Somalia Face Humanitarian Crises, Insurgency and Instability
By Neel Arora - At a Capitol Hill hearing, experts on Somalia and Ethiopia warned the area is becoming less stable and less democratic.
Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Scripps Howard Foundation Wire - One of the world's most volatile region, the ...
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A guide to G20 Protesters
By THANE BURNETT, QMI Agency
Did someone order a lot of opinions?
Here is just a sample of the concerns and organizations — most perfectly respectful and a few that are potentially far from peaceful — that will raise their voices during the...
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Ethiopians protest Meles Zenawi’s visit to G20
By Liz Monteiro
KITCHENER – Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is a repressive dictator who shouldn’t be allowed to visit Canada and participate in the G20 summit this weekend, says an Ethiopian-born Kitchener man.
Semou Zinabou and about 60...
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The Movement to Smother Solidarity — From Israel to Ethiopia to Honduras
Should you shut up about human rights abuses because they are happening far away, to people you don't know, who have a different culture or color or creed? There is now a growing movement across the world saying that, yes, empathy should be cauterize...
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It’s time to give Ethiopia the diplomatic tools that it requires
By Charles Tannock
Two decades ago, Ethiopia was a Cold War battlefield. On the ideological map of the world, it was Soviet territory, a land of famine, dictatorship, and civil war. But, with the overthrow of Mengistu Haile Mariam’s Marxist-Lenini...
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Web campaign against Ethiopia Gibe III dam
A group of international campaigners has launched an online petition against Ethiopia's huge Gibe III dam project.
The group wants to put pressure on Western donors and banks not to fund the dam, saying it would destroy the livelihoods of some 500...
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Political Prisoner Birtukan Midiksa Denied Medical Attention
The irresponsible statement by Meles Zenawi ("Birtukan Midiksa is fine but she may have gained weight due to lack of exercise" ) highlights the callousness of the person leading the repressive EPRDF regime that has illegally imprisoned former Judge B...
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Ethiopia ‘rules with an iron fist’
Nairobi - The Ethiopian government is waging a campaign of repression against political opponents ahead of parliamentary elections set for May, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday.
Around 200 protesters were shot following the last election...
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Abducted. Raped. Married. Can Ethiopia’s wives ever break free?
Johann Hari on Ethiopia's forced marriages:
Every woman remembers her wedding day with a tear in her eye – but, here in Ethiopia, the tears are different, and darker, and do not stop. Nurame Abedo is sitting in her hut high in the clouds, remember...
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Ethiopia National Elections: Carter Center Slams Meles Zenawi’s Elections Ritual
THE CARTER CENTER OBSERVATION MISSION 2005 : FINAL REPORT
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Upon the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, The Carter Center observed Ethiopia’s May 15, 2005 elections for th...
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Letter to Justice Navanathem Pillay, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
Petitions Team
Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights UNOG-OHCHR
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Dear Madam High Commissioner,
No one has ever been brought to justice in Ethiopia for the massacre of 424 Anuak in Gamb...
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Obama’s Hesitant Embrace of Human Rights
By KENNETH ROTH:
As one would expect from so eloquent a leader, President Obama has brought about a marked improvement in presidential rhetoric on human rights in comparison with his predecessor. In a series of speeches around the world, carefully t...
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Adoption Watchdog Suppresses Ethiopia Findings
By Mary Ann Jolley for Foreign Correspondent
A powerful international adoption overseer is refusing to release the results of its inquiry into the disturbing activities of American adoption agencies operating in Ethiopia.
The inquiry was launched a...
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A Voice for Israeli Refugees
On Tuesday, February 24, Israeli Ethiopian recognized refugee Yonannes Bayu spoke in a lecture at Temple Emanu-El presented by New Israel Fund of Canada.
Bayu spoke about the plight of refugees in Israel – currently, about 20,000 asylum seekers ...
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Judges allow genocide charge against , Meles Zenawis body, Sudanese Ruler
(CNN) -- Judges at the International Criminal Court ruled Wednesday that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir may be charged with genocide for his role in a five-year campaign of violence in western Sudan's Darfur region.
Al-Bashir, who remains in of...
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Ethiopia’s jailed victim of Western realpolitik
XAN RICE
At noon every Sunday an old Toyota sedan donated by supporters of Ethiopia's most famous prisoner pulls up near a jail on the outskirts of the capital.
A 74-year-old woman in a white shawl and her four-year-old granddaughter -- the only ou...
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Ethiopian Rulers Attack Human Rights Defenders, Says HRW Report
The human rights movement can look back on 2009 with some satisfaction in exposing abuses almost anywhere in the world. By shaming, diplomatic and economic pressures, the human rights movement is making it more costly for abusive governments to viola...
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AU Summit: Focus on Human Rights Consequences of Conflicts
Source: Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Date: 22 Jan 2010
Incorporate "Civilian Protection" and "Rejection of Impunity" in Strategies to End Conflicts
(New York) - The African Union (AU) should improve its strategies for civilian protection and acc...
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2010: Human Rights Watch Report on Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Events of 2009
Ethiopia is on a deteriorating human rights trajectory as parliamentary elections approach in 2010. These will be the first national elections since 2005, when post-election protests resulted in the deaths of at leas...
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