Sudan: A Positive Move towards Peaceful Conflict Resolutions
HRLHA Statement
Devil’s Bargain: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
On October 30 2012, CCIJ Toronto Working Group screened Devil’s Bargain followed by a panel discussion with Olivia Ward, Foreign Affairs Analyst, Toronto Star and collaborator on the film; Professor Aparna Sundar, Department of Politics and Public administration, Ryerson University; Garoma Wakessa, Human Rights League of the Horn of…
Devil’s Bargain: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
On October 30 2012, CCIJ Toronto Working Group screened Devil’s Bargain followed by a panel discussion with Olivia Ward, Foreign Affairs Analyst, Toronto Star and collaborator on the film; Professor Aparna Sundar, Department of Politics and Public administration, Ryerson University; Garoma Wakessa, Human Rights League of the Horn of…
Devil’s Bargain: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
On October 30 2012, CCIJ Toronto Working Group screened Devil’s Bargain followed by a panel discussion with Olivia Ward, Foreign Affairs Analyst, Toronto Star and collaborator on the film; Professor Aparna Sundar, Department of Politics and Public administration, Ryerson University; Garoma Wakessa, Human Rights League of the Horn of…
Ethiopia: Changes without Improvements
The Human Rights Situation in Ethiopia Deteriorated Rapidly After the New PM Came to Power February 2013 HRLHA Statement Ethiopians and the friends of Ethiopia have recently witnessed two major changes taking place in the country particularly in relation to honouring and protecting human rights. One is the replacement…
Ethiopia: Changes without Improvements
The Human Rights Situation in Ethiopia Deteriorated Rapidly After the New PM Came to Power February 2013 HRLHA Statement Ethiopians and the friends of Ethiopia have recently witnessed two major changes taking place in the country particularly in relation to honouring and protecting human rights. One is the replacement…
Ethiopians ‘driven out in land grabs’
Thousands of Ethiopians are being driven off their ancestral land that the government’s selling without their consent to foreign investors buying up vast swathes of farmland, a U.S. watchdog reports. About 70,000 people are being cleared from their villages so the farmland can be leased to the Chinese and Gulf…
Make Human Rights Activism towards Protecting the Right to Dissent your New Year’s Resolution
December 29, 2012 2013 New Year’s Message from HRLHA As the New Year approaches its entry, most people make their personal resolutions to better themselves or the lives of others. The quick search of some of the top resolutions made year after year includes living healthy, spending less and saving…
Ethiopian migrants abused and unwelcome in Yemen, By Graham Peebles
Desperately seeking a future Year on year the numbers of men women and children leaving Ethiopia in search of work and freedom from repression in one of the Gulf States and beyond is increasing. Lured by the often hollow prospect of earning enough money to support their family, United Nations…
Ethiopian migrants abused and unwelcome in Yemen, By Graham Peebles
Desperately seeking a future Year on year the numbers of men women and children leaving Ethiopia in search of work and freedom from repression in one of the Gulf States and beyond is increasing. Lured by the often hollow prospect of earning enough money to support their family, United Nations…
Ethiopian migrants abused and unwelcome in Yemen, By Graham Peebles
Desperately seeking a future Year on year the numbers of men women and children leaving Ethiopia in search of work and freedom from repression in one of the Gulf States and beyond is increasing. Lured by the often hollow prospect of earning enough money to support their family, United Nations…
UN concerned over reports of human rights violations in Sudan, South Sudan
UN concerned over reports of human rights violations in Sudan, South Sudan South Sudan Human Rights Commission in partnership with UNMISS and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Photo: UNMISS 11 December 2012 – The United Nations human rights office today expressed its concern over the recent…
UN concerned over reports of human rights violations in Sudan, South Sudan
UN concerned over reports of human rights violations in Sudan, South Sudan South Sudan Human Rights Commission in partnership with UNMISS and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Photo: UNMISS 11 December 2012 – The United Nations human rights office today expressed its concern over the recent…
UN concerned over reports of human rights violations in Sudan, South Sudan
UN concerned over reports of human rights violations in Sudan, South Sudan South Sudan Human Rights Commission in partnership with UNMISS and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Photo: UNMISS 11 December 2012 – The United Nations human rights office today expressed its concern over the recent…
10 D e c e m b e r 2012, H u m a n R I g h t s D a y
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM – THE PRACTICE FOR CHANGING 10…
10 D e c e m b e r 2012, H u m a n R I g h t s D a y
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM – THE PRACTICE FOR CHANGING 10…
10 D e c e m b e r 2012, H u m a n R I g h t s D a y
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM – THE PRACTICE FOR CHANGING 10…
Ethiopia: Perpetrators of Human Rights are not Protectors of Human Rights
HRLHA – November 14, 2012 The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) strictly denounces that UN General Assembly elected Ethiopia on November 12, 2012 to serve in the UN human Rights Council for the next three years starting from January 1, 2013. In the last two…
ETHIOPIA: Lest History Repeats Itself
21 Years of Human Right Calamity, HRLHA Press Release August 24, 2012 Only three heads of state exchanged hands over power in Ethiopia during a period of time that…
ETHIOPIA: Lest History Repeats Itself
21 Years of Human Right Calamity, HRLHA Press Release August 24, 2012 Only three heads of state exchanged hands over power in Ethiopia during a period of time that…
Ethiopia: Crackdown on Dissent Intensifies
Six More Activists Arrested under Abusive Anti-Terrorism Law SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 The recent spate of arrests points to a broadening crackdown against dissent by the Ethiopian authorities. The detention of Debebe Eshetu, Eskinder Nega, and Andualem Aragie is just the latest reminder that it is very dangerous to criticize the…
ETHIOPIA: Rights-Related Demands Risking Terrorism
Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) PRESS RELEASE, July 27, 2012. The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) would like to express its deep concern regarding how the TPLF/EPRDF Government of Ethiopia is handling the country-wide peaceful protests by Ethiopian Muslims that have been…
UN rights chief ‘seriously alarmed’ by intimidation of journalists in Ethiopia
Navi Pillay concerned over journalists being jailed in Ethiopia. The top United Nations human rights official this week said she is “seriously alarmed” by the current climate of intimidation against journalists and human rights defenders in Ethiopia due to an overly broad interpretation of laws concerning terrorism and civil society…
Ethiopia: Harassments and Intimidations of Activists Continued Unabated in Ethiopia,
ACall for Reversal of Politically Motivated Sentences The Ethiopian TPLF/EPRDF Government has given the local and international community another huge shock by imposing long term imprisonments on 24 human rights activists, journalists, and opposition members including the prominent press freedom advocate Iskinder Nega. An Ethiopian court on Friday 13th…
