Ethiopia: Call for a Millennium for Human Rights

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Public Statement
AI Index: AFR 25/022/2007 (Public)
News Service No: 174
11 September 2007 Read more...

Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO)

Release or Prosecute Detained Persons in Nekemte Town and its Environs!

Urgent Appeal
August 31, 2007Read more ...

Ethiopian Activists Pursuing Court Case Face Two-Month Adjournment and a Prolonged Jail Delay
By Howard Lesser
Washington, DC
06 August 2007

Ethiopia Pardons 38 Opposition Leaders

By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, July 21, 2007; Page A08
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Press Release
Issued by CUD detainee leaders
Released on July 20, 2007
(Amharic)

AI Index: AFR 25/017/2007 (Public)
News Service No: 134
16 July 2007

Ethiopian: Prisoners of conscience jailed for lifeRead more...

Public Statement

AI Index: AFR 25/016/2007 (Public)
News Service No: 131
9 July 2007

Ethiopia: Prosecutor demands death sentences for prisoners of conscienceRead more...

Further Information on UA 4/07 (AFR 25/001/2007, 4 January 2007) Fear of torture or ill-reatment /"disappearance"/prisoners of conscience

ETHIOPIA Meqcha Mengistu (m) aged 38 ] teachers and officials of the
Anteneh Getnet (m) aged 42 ] Ethiopian Teachers' Association (ETA)
Tilahun Ayalew (m) aged 49 ]

New name: Woldie Dana (m), teacher, ETA memberRead more ...

International Rally to Free Ethiopian Civil Society Leaders on Thursday

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Activists Demand Immediate Release of Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders

- Geneva rally - Thursday, June 30, 2007: International rallies urge release of Ethiopian civil society leaders PRESS UPDATE

- Report on the International Rally

Public Statement

AI Index: AFR 25/012/2007 (Public)
News Service No: 115
19 June 2007

Ethiopia: Prisoners of conscience and prominent human rights defender convictedRead more...

Serkalem Fasil of Ethiopia, Win Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Women’s Media Foundation. Read more...

Human Rights and Democratisation in Ethiopia
Tow Years After 15 May, 2005 Election
JOINT MEETING OF COMMITTEE ON DEVELOPMEN AND SUB-COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT.

- Summary Report

- Testimony by Dadimos Haile, (LL.B, LL.M, S.J.D), Scholar in Residence, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp;

- Testimony by Judge Woldemichael Meshesha: THE INDEPENDENT INQUIRYCOMMISSION DELIBIRATIONS AND ITS HINDRANCES;

- Testimony by Dr. Mulualem Tarekegn, Executive Committee Member of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUDP) and Elected Member of the Ethiopian Parliament.

Head of state: Girma Wolde-Giorgis
Head of government: Meles Zenawi
Death penalty: retentionist
International Criminal Court: not ratifiedRead more...

- Opening Statement of Bill Delahunt (Chairman, Subcommittee of International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight)

- Testimony: DR. SULAYMAN S. NYANG (PROFESSOR OF AFRICAN STUDIES HOWARD UNIVERSITY)

- Testimony: Lynn Fredriksson (Advocacy Director for Africa Amnesty International USA)

- Testimony: Dr. J. Peter Pham (Director The Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs, James Madison University)

- AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL's Public Statement
AI Index: AFR 25/008/2007 (Public), 2 May 2007 (Ethiopia: Trial of opposition leaders, human rights defenders and journalists continues)

- CPJ's Special Report 2007: The 10 countries where press freedom has most deteriorated

- EHRCO Condemns Massacre Committed on Innocent Oilfield Workers: PRESS RELEASE, 26 April 2007

- FIDH and OMCT (Paris-Geneva, April 19, 2007): Update in the trial against three human rights defenders and several political opponents.

-Reporters sans frontières / Reporters Without Borders: ETHIOPIA, 9 April 2007.Eight journalists freed after 17 months in prison.

-EAST AND HORN OF AFRICA HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS NETWORK: Public Statement 10th April 2007. Welcomes the news about the acquittal of Ethiopian journalist.

- CPJ: Ethiopian High Court acquits eight journalists on antistate crimes. April 9, 2007 .

- The African Civil Society Forum 2007: Resolution on Ethiopia, 24 March 2007

- EHRCO's 99th Special Report: Torture of Detainees should Stop! March 30, 2007.

- EHRCO: Regular Report 26th (Amharic), (English), March 2007

- AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGENT ACTION UPDATE: Fear of torture or ill-treatment/incommunicado detention; PUBLIC AI Index: AFR 25/004/2007 , 06 March 2007Read more...

- Ethiopian Human Rights Council: Obituary
26th February 2007, Mekonnen Bishaw – Human Rights Defender

- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Ethiopia ( humanitarian news and analysis) Last update: February 2007; Human Rights:
http://www.irinnews.org/country.aspx?CountryCode=ET&RegionCode=HOA

- HRW Letter to Ethiopian Ministers on Human Rights Violations Against Students: FEDERAL AGENCIES MUST INVESTIGATE ALLEGED ABUSES BY POLICE, February 20, 2007
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/02/20/ethiop15368.htm

- The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU): Country Report January 2007, Ethiopia

- Open Letter to the People of Ethiopia and the Honorable Judges By Dr. Yacob Haile-Mariam, Kaliti Prison, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2007

- Fear of torture or ill-treatment/ incommunicado detention: Amnesty International: AFR 25/002/2007, 02 February 2007

- Ethiopia - Annual Report 2007: REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS: FOR PRESS FREEDOM, 2007 Annual Report - Africa, page 23

- Amnesty International USA: Human Rights Agenda for the 110th U.S. Congress, January 23, 2007.

- Human Rights Watch World Report 2007: Ethiopia, Events in 2006

- Filling the Leadership Void: Where is the European Union? by Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.

- ETHIOPIA: The Situation of Human Rights Defenders From Bad to Worse, (fidh and OMCT: THE OBSERVATORY for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders)
International Mission of Judicial Observation

- Fear of torture or ill-treatment/ “disappearance”/ prisoners of conscience: Amnesty International: Urgent Appeal 04/07
4 January 2007

- Exiled Journalists' Network (EJN): Press Freedom Forum Series; Public Order, State Security and Press Freedom in Ethiopia: Towards finding a common ground
FORUM REPORT, 27 & 29 September 2006, London, UK

- THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CLINIC (IHRC): Testimony from a 35-year old male in Pochalla, Gambella, Ethiopia, January 2006, (HARVARD LAW SCHOOL’S HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM), December 14, 2006

- EHRCO's Press Release: issued on the occasion of International Human Rights Day (December 10, 2006)

- Amnesty International Report 2006

- Ethiopia: Prisoners of conscience on trial for treason: opposition party leaders, human rights defenders and journalists" (AI Index: AFR 25/013/2006), published 2 May 2006 (pdf)

- ETHIOPIA : 60 people reportedly detained Fear of torture/possible prisoners of conscience

- Extrajudicial execution of youths must be investigated

- ICJ calls for immediate and unconditional release of Lawyer Behane

- EUROPEAN UNION ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION FINAL REPORT

- Prisoners of conscience prepare to face 'trial' - Amnesty Internationa

- URGENT HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS IN ETHIOPIA

- International Women's Day: Ethiopian women cry for justice (English) (French) PDF

- Ethiopia:Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 U.S Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

- Position paper from FIDH

FIDH would like to make the following recommendations to the Human Rights Council:"condemn serious human rights violations committed by the government of Ethiopia"

- Medical concern on Professor Mesfin Woldemariam, aged 76 (AI)

- Amnesty International is concerned about the ill-health and inadequate medical care of Dr Berhanu Negga

- East Africa and the Horn of Africa 'Defending the Defenders': A Human Rights Defenders Conference" (AI Index AFR 04/001/2006)

- Election in Ethiopia and Byelorussia Similar stories, different e standards and responses

- The International Federation for Human Right: Written Statement