HRW World Report : Ethiopia
Ethiopians vote inside a polling station in the capital Addis Ababa on May 23, 2010. Africa researcher Ben Rawlence explains how foreign aid helps the Ethiopian government to suppress political dissent. The ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) consolidated political control with a striking 99.6 percent victory in the…
Human Rights World Report: Quiet Diplomacy Failing to Protect Human Rights
Photo: AP Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth shows the group’s annual review during a media conference. Human Rights Watch report the silence and complicity of the U.S., U.N., EU and major European nations in dealing with rights-abusing developing nations, 24 Jan 2011. Western democratic governments are failing to…
Human Rights World Report: Quiet Diplomacy Failing to Protect Human Rights
Photo: AP Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth shows the group’s annual review during a media conference. Human Rights Watch report the silence and complicity of the U.S., U.N., EU and major European nations in dealing with rights-abusing developing nations, 24 Jan 2011. Western democratic governments are failing to…
Rights group alleges misuse of Ethiopia aid
PAUL CULLEN, Political Staff IRISH OVERSEAS aid to Ethiopia is being used to shore up the power of the regime and marginalise its opponents, an Oireachtas committee has been told. Money from Ireland and other donors flows through government structures in Ethiopia and is used by a highly partisan, politicised…
For Immediate Release: Horn Institute of Peace & Social Justice
Minneapolis, MN – Horn Institute of Peace & Social Justice is concerned that the Somali Regional President of Ethiopia, Mr. Abdi Mohamud Omar is expected to depart from Ethiopia on January 18, 2011 and arrive in Minnesota. We are vehemently protesting the decision to allow Mr. Omar to enter the…
Djibouti: Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa/HRLHA Urgent Action and Appeal, January 2011
PUBLIC, 12 January 2011 Extra-judicial Arrest in Djibouti; Fear of Deportations and Tortures Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) is highly concerned about the safety of nine Oromo refugees from Ethiopia whose whereabouts are not known since they were extra-judicially arrested and taken away by members of…
New Year Message from HRLHA
“We presume that some good jobs have been done; but, still there is lot to be done.” The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) would like to extend its warmest greetings of the holiday season and the best wishes of the new years to all of those…
Ethiopia: Donors Should Investigate Misuse of Aid Money
Residents of the southern Ethiopian district of Boricha wait for a regional government official to call their names outside a makeshift food distribution center. © 2008 Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images National Parliaments and Audit Institutions Should Demand Accountability Human Rights Watch December 17, 2010 (New York) – Ethiopia’s international donors should…
INVITATION TO A CONFERENCE
HRLHA-UK, in collaboration with other Human Rights Campaigners has organized a conference on “The State of Human Rights in the Horn of Africa, Particularly Ethiopia” Dear Friends, The Human Rights crisis in Ethiopia is so worrying. No one seems to understand the scale of the violation. However, torture, disappearance and extrajudicial…
Kenya: Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) – Urgent Action and Appeal
December 2010 PUBLIC, 08 December 2010 Police Crackdown on Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya Fear of Deportations and Tortures The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) has learnt through its correspondents that, in a severe crackdown that has been going on in Nairobi Kenya since the 4th of…
The Torture Victim exposes the Ethiopian Government’s inhuman treatment against its Citizens
Mr. Hussein Osman, a torture victim and an Oromo national, in an oral statement he presented at the 45th UN Committee Against Torture at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday, November 2,2010 explained he was tortured because of his different political believe; and consequently paralyzed by EPRDF/TPLF…
Djibouti expels over 400 illegal immigrants from Somalia, Ethiopia
In the framework of fighting illegal immigration, national police undertook a large operation to expel over 400 illegal immigrants in Djibouti today on Tuesday [7 September]. Most illegal immigrants were arrested yesterday during an important campaign aimed at destroying illegal housing and other shelters built here and there in popular…
A Message From the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Human Rights Day 2010: defending against discrimination Dear All, On Human Rights Day, 10 December, 2010 the focus will be on human rights defenders who act to end discrimination. The UN Human Rights office will pay tribute to human rights champions who in their daily lives find ways to ensure that…
HRLHA Urgent Action No 5, 2010
Kidnapping and Disappearance in Ethiopia Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) is highly concerned about the safety of Mrs. Asha Mohammad Galmo and Mr. Milkesa Abdusalam Juhar, who were kidnapped on the 4th of August, 2010. Mrs. Asha Mohammad Galmo, age 40, and her son Milkessa Abdusalam…
HRLHA URGENT ACTION No 4 July 2010
Appeal To: The President of Puntland His Excellency Dr. Abdirahman Mohamed Mohamud (Farole), President of the Puntland State of Somalia, Garoowe. Tel: + 2525 844151, or + 2525454764 Fax: + 2525 4 54764 Your Excellency, First of all, Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) would like to…
A Call for the reversal of Politically motivated death sentence
The Government of Kenya Shares Accountability The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) stronglydenounces the death penalty and stiff prison terms handed down to fifteen Oromo nationals by an Ethiopian federal high court in Addis Ababa/Finfinne. According to information obtained through our correspondents, the 3rd bench of the Federal…
A Call for the reversal of Politically motivated death sentence
The Government of Kenya Shares Accountability The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) stronglydenounces the death penalty and stiff prison terms handed down to fifteen Oromo nationals by an Ethiopian federal high court in Addis Ababa/Finfinne. According to information obtained through our correspondents, the 3rd bench of the Federal…
HRLHA URGENT ACTION No 3, June2010
Abduction and Disappearance of Refugees in Somaliland The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) expresses its deep concern about the safety of six Oromo refugees who were abducted from various locations in Somaliland on different dates in a joint operation by security forces of the governments of…
