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Association for Women's Sanctuary and Development (AWSAD) is a women's shelter in Ethiopia. [1] [2] [3] It is the first of its kind to be established in the country and began operations in 2003. [4] [5] [6] AWSAD currently has various branches in several cities including Addis Ababa and Adama. [7]
Following the Ethiopian Revolution, women made some gains in economic and political areas. The Revolutionary Ethiopian Women's Association (REWA), which claimed a membership of over 5 million, took an active part in educating women. It encouraged the creation of women's organizations in factories, local associations, and in the civil service.
EWLA was established in 1995 by Ethiopian women lawyers which included Maria Yusuf, Atsedeweine Tekle and Meaza Ashenafi among others. [3] [4] One of its main objectives is to tackle prejudice against women. [5]
The World Bank has long made Ethiopia a top priority, funneling loans to its government to help the East African nation of some 90 million people move past its legacy of poverty and famine. In 2005, the bank cut off funding for Ethiopia after the country’s authoritarian leaders massacred scores of people and arrested some 20,000 political ...
REWA was the first lasting organization for women's rights in Ethiopia. While women had been granted suffrage in 1955, the Empirical Constitution had defined women as second class citizens legally under the guardianship of men, and the previous women's groups had mainly been charities for upper class women. REWA was a national organization.
A Walk to Beautiful tells the stories of five women in Ethiopia who are ostracized by their family and villages due to their suffering from obstetric fistula, a serious medical condition caused by failed childbirth under conditions of insurmountable poverty and inadequate health care. These women live in isolation with a sense of loneliness and ...
The Ethiopian society generally tolerated such violence and defend the value. They thought that women would tend to follow Westernized culture, even this notion is supported by educated people. There are also abduction, child marriage, and sex works in urban areas. Under Article 620 of Ethiopian Criminal Code, rape is
At federal level only 13% of the women were at professional level. In the Informal sector, however, 64.93% are women concentrated in a low paying job. Women in Ethiopia are engaged with the triple role of production, reproduction and household duties. On an average a rural woman will spend 15 – 18 hours a day on agricultural and domestic ...