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This list of human rights awards is an index to articles about notable awards given for the promotion of human rights. These are moral principles or social norms that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law . [ 1 ]
During 2017 and 2018, Addisu Gebre Egziabher was the head (Chief Commissioner) of the EHRC. [8] [9]In February 2019, Daniel Bekele, a former Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, [10] director at Human Rights Watch and a frequent critic of the EHRC, was appointed as the new chief commissioner and charged with its reform.
According to the U.S. Department of State's human rights report for 2022, there exists "significant human rights issues" in Ethiopia. In addition to extrajudicial killings and instances of "enforced disappearance", other human right issues in Ethiopia include arbitrary arrest, the censorship and unjustified arrests of journalists, the use of child soldiers, and more.
The Ethiopian Human Rights Council was created on 10 October 1991 [1] by Mesfin Woldemariam and 31 colleagues in 1991 [2] shortly after Mengistu Hailemariam was replaced by the Transitional Government of Ethiopia, dominated by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). [3]
The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) was established by the UN Human Rights Council in December 2021. [1] The mandate of the commission is to investigate allegations of violations and abuses of international human rights law, humanitarian law and refugee law in Ethiopia committed since 3 November 2020 by all parties to the conflict. [2]
Ethiopian human rights activists (2 C, 9 P) L. LGBTQ rights in Ethiopia (3 P) O. Human rights organisations based in Ethiopia (1 C, 3 P) W. Women's rights in Ethiopia ...
In late 2011, Human Rights Watch confronted the World Bank and the Ethiopian government about reports of abuses stemming from the resettlement program in Gambella. These accounts, which it detailed soon after in a report called “Waiting Here for Death,” described a campaign of evictions enforced by arbitrary arrests, beatings, rapes and ...
Meaza Mohammed is an Ethiopian journalist and human rights activist. She was awarded the International Women of Courage Award in 2023. [1] [2] [3] References