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…
Somaliland: Kidnapping and Disappearance
HRLHA Appeal and Urgent Action December 01, 2012. To: President of the Republic of Somaliland Your Excellency President Ahmed M. Mohamoud Silanyo Somaliland1991@gmail.com TEL/FAX: 252-225-3871 . Your Excellency, The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) is highly concerned about the safety and whereabouts of Mrs. Riyan Abdurahman…
Somaliland: Kidnapping and Disappearance
HRLHA Appeal and Urgent Action December 01, 2012. To: President of the Republic of Somaliland Your Excellency President Ahmed M. Mohamoud Silanyo Somaliland1991@gmail.com TEL/FAX: 252-225-3871 . Your Excellency, The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) is highly concerned about the safety and whereabouts of Mrs. Riyan Abdurahman…
Ethiopia: Apprehension and Detention of Oromo Nationals on Irrecha Festivals Celebration
HRLHA URGENT ACTION October 5, 2012 The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) is highly concerned about the safety and wellbeing of hundreds of Oromo Nationals who were arrested by the Ethiopian Security forces on the annual Irrecha Festival (Oromo Traditional Thanksgiving) Holiday in central Oromia…
Somaliland: Detentions and Deportations of Ethiopian Refugees & Asylum Seekers
HRLHA Appeal and Urgent Action September 06, 2012 The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) would like to express its deep concern regarding the disturbing situations of Ethiopian refugees and asylum seekers inSomalilandthat has been surfacing since August 30, 2012. According to information obtained by the…
Ethiopia: Army Commits Torture, Rape
Gambella Atrocities Follow Attack on Commercial Farm; New ‘Villagization’ Abuses AUGUST 28, 2012 © 2012 Human Rights Watch RELATED MATERIALS: “Waiting Here for Death” “What Will Happen if Hunger Comes?” Ethiopia: Terrorism Law Used to Crush Free Speech The attack on Saudi Star was a criminal act but it…
Ethiopia: Kidnapping and Disappearances, Fear of Torture
HRLHA Appeal and Urgent Action, Public: August 11, 2012 The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa is highly concerned about the safety and whereabouts of two Oromo nationals who were kidnapped and taken away by government security agents. According to reports obtained by the HRLHA through its…
Ethiopia: The Endless Violence against Oromo Nationals Fear of Torture
HRLHA Appeal and Urgent Action July 2012 An end to the years of harassments and intimidations through arbitrary arrests, indefinite detentions, kidnappings and disappearances, etc. not yet in sight, many Oromo nationals in Oromia Regional State have been arrested and detained in this month of…
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…
Ethiopia Muslims Tortured Over Ahbashism: woman dies after torture
May 25, 2012, ADDIS ABABA (OnIslam) – Ethiopian Muslim activists are reporting torture and abuses by security forces over growing opposition to an alleged government campaign to indoctrinate the community with Ahbashism campaign. “An Ethiopian activist died after being tortured by electric shock and inhumane acts by government security forces,”…
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Oromo refugees persecuted in Ethiopia-Somalia
Image by: Photo Pressenza Tony Henderson After escaping Ethiopia, Oromia refugees were subjected to further human rights violations including being hunted by armed groups. Within the last two days, Somaliland Authorities destroyed belongings of refugees and asylum seekers outside of the Social Welfare Center in Hargeisa. They used bulldozers to…
A Letter to the Prime Minister of Norway
His Excellency Mr. Jens Stoltenberg Prime minister of Norway Glacisgata 1 Postboks 8001 Dep, 0030 Oslo, Norway postmottak@smk.dep.no kesp@smk.dep.no sfb@sm Your Excellency Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) is writing this letter in an attempt to bring to your attention the case…
Widespread Violence against Students in Ethiopia
Dismissals and Suspensions of University Students on Political Grounds February 20, 2012 Three students of Jimma Unversity in the regional State of Oromia in Ethiopia were given academic dismissal while four others were suspended from their studies at the university for two years for demanding for a halt to what…
Ethiopian Anti-Terrorism Law to Quell Dissent
HRLHA Press Release, February 4, 2012 The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) strongly denounces the life in prison sentence for blogger and long year in prison sentence for two journalists and two political leaders passed by the Ethiopian Federal High Court on January 19, 2012 and…
Continued Violence in Academic Institutions
HRLHA – Press Release January 20, 2012 The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) is highly concerned about the never ending incidences of government-sponsored violence in academic institutions and workplaces in Ethiopian in general and in the regional state of Oromia in particular. A very recent case…
Continued Violence in Academic Institutions
HRLHA – Press Release January 20, 2012 The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) is highly concerned about the never ending incidences of government-sponsored violence in academic institutions and workplaces in Ethiopian in general and in the regional state of Oromia in particular. A very recent case…
Ethiopia forces thousands off land – Human Rights Watch
Many Ethiopian farmers struggle to survive on what they can grow Ethiopia’s government has been accused of forcing tens of thousands of people off their land so it can be leased to foreign investors. US-based Human Rights Watch says people are being forcibly relocated to new villages that lack adequate…
HRLHA 2012 New Year Message
More Problems, Fewer Solutions The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) wishes a stable, peaceful, joyful and healthy New Year for all of its members, supporters, staff, volunteers, and friends in the Horn of Africa Countries and elsewhere. Leaving behind the old year and welcoming the…
HRLHA 2012 New Year Message
More Problems, Fewer Solutions The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) wishes a stable, peaceful, joyful and healthy New Year for all of its members, supporters, staff, volunteers, and friends in the Horn of Africa Countries and elsewhere. Leaving behind the old year and welcoming the…
Seven Good Reasons Why You Should Support HRLHA
2 0 1 2 The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa/HRLHA has been working for the past two decades to hold the Governments of the Horn of African countries to account for their gross human rights abuses in the Region. The efforts that the HRLHA has so…
Ethiopia – Appeal to HRLHA, From Oromo community of South Rogaland, Norway
The Scrabble for the land in Ethiopia by Trance National Companies and rich foreign states in the past four years had already evicted more than 3million people in Oromia, Gambela, Benshagule and other areas. To halt the land robbery of TPLF Government many international Civic Society Organizations and medias were…
Ethiopia – Appeal to the Development Assistance Group (DAG) from Oromo community of South Rogaland, Norway
The Oromo community of South Rogaland, Norway, released an appeal demanding the International Civic Organizations, International Diplomats and others to cooperate with them to fight against the TPLF Government to stop the land grab ruining the lives of million citizens in Oromia, Ogaden, Gambela, Benshangul and others. The following is…
LETTER FROM REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS TO U.N. SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON ABUSE OF ANTI-TERRORISM LAW
Freedom of the press has deteriorated considerably in Ethiopia this year, with a dozen journalists arrested in the past few weeks and the fate of two Swedish journalists on trial in Addis Ababa on terrorism charges expected to be known tomorrow. Reporters Without Borders has written to Ben Emmerson, Special…
