November 2014

By Robele Ababya, 28/11/2014 I would like to start writing this piece, centered on respect for basic human rights, with this quote derived from the address to the European Parliament by His Holiness Pope Francis on 25 November 2014:- “Promoting the dignity of the person means recognizing that he or she possesses inalienable rights which …

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The International Organization for Migration Special Liaison Office in Ethiopia (IOM Ethiopia Office) in collaboration with the Ethiopian ministry of Foreign Affairs will receive 253 Ethiopian returnees from Tanzania on Friday 28 November 2014. The irregular migrants, who were released from Tanzanian prisons last week, were staying at temporary stations provided by IOM Tanzania until …

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CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Saturday dismissed murder charges against former President Hosni Mubarak in connection with the killing of hundreds of protesters in the 2011 uprising that ended his nearly three-decade rule, citing the “inadmissibility” of the case due to a technicality. The ruling marks another major setback for the young activists …

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by Keffyalew Gebremedhin – The Ethiopia Observatory (TEO) Exactly 55 days, after the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) on September 19, 2014 approved a load of recommendations to facilitate improvements in Ethiopia’s human rights record, the TPLF regime has chosen to further tighten the nooses of repression against the neck of remnants of Ethiopia’s …

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By David Smith The Guardian Ethiopia’s policy of leasing millions of hectares of land to foreign investors is encouraging human rights violations, ruining livelihoods and disturbing a delicate political balance between ethnic groups, a thinktank report has found. The US-based Oakland Institute says that while the east African country is now lauded as an economic …

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