The Rarely Implemented Commitments
(63 Years with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) HRLHA Press Release – December 10, 2011 Today, we are celebrating the 63rd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We have learnt from history that the evolution of the essence of human rights stretches back more than 2500 years,…
Ethiopian man burns himself to death in protest
All Stories, Ethiopia Aid Exposed, Top Stories Teacher Yenesew Gebre before his fatal protest Events in Ethiopia have taken a disturbing turn following reports that a teacher in his late 20s burnt himself alive last week in protest against the ongoing brutal clampdown on dissent in the country. According to reports Yenesew…
The Frustrating Situation of Refugees in Somaliland
November 12, 2011 HRLHA Appeal and Urgent Action Your Excellency Mr. Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud, President of the Republic of Somaliland. Dear Honorable President, First of all, Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) would like to express its appreciation to the people of the Republic of Somaliland and…
Somalia – Peoples’ Free Will; Not Coercions
Press Release – October 2011 The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa strongly condemns the heinous and deadly terrorist attack carried out in the Somali Capital, Moqadisho on the 4th of October, 2011, in which 70 plus innocent civilians were killed, and more than one hundred others wounded. Among…
Ethiopia – Persistent Perpetrations to Maintain Grip on Power
HRLHA Urgent Action, October 7, 2011 HRLHA is highly concerned about the stability and wellbeing of the elderly, the very young, and those who were made homeless following the violent and bloody clash between Oromos and the Gumuz ethnic group (for the second time in three years) from September 22…
Thousands of Eritreans flee forced conscription
Eritrean soldiers. File photo.Image by: AFP For 12-year-old Eritrean refugee Ablel, the decision to flee his country was relatively simple. “I didn’t want to be a soldier,” he says with a shy smile, revealing a mouthful of crooked teeth. Getting out, however, was a harder challenge. He is one of…
The Endless Crack Downs and Their threat to Democratization in Ethiopia
HRLHA – Urgent Action and Appeal September, 2011 The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) would like to express its deep concern regarding the safety and well-being of the victims of the most recent crack downs against the independent media and political organizations. The TPLF/EPRDF-led Ethiopian Government…
United Nations Grants HRLHA a Special Consultative Status
PRESS RELEASE September17,2011 The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) is highly pleased and honoured to announce that it has been granted a Special Consultative Status by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), one of the six major organs of the UN, as of July…
Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) Oromo – A Nation at Risk
Human Rights Violation in Ethiopia PRESS RELEASE– September 5, 2011As part of the most recent violence against citizens in general and the Oromo people in particular, which has already resulted in the incarceration of hundreds of Oromo nationals, dozens of other Oromos have been extra-judicially arrested and sent to prison…
Somalia: End War Crimes to Help Tackle Famine
Abuses by All Sides Contribute to Current Crisis HRW – Press releas (Nairobi) – All parties to Somalia’s armed conflict have committed serious violations of the laws of war that are contributing to the country’s humanitarian catastrophe, Human Rights Watch said in a report released 14 August 2011. All sides…
Somalia: End War Crimes to Help Tackle Famine
Abuses by All Sides Contribute to Current Crisis HRW – Press releas (Nairobi) – All parties to Somalia’s armed conflict have committed serious violations of the laws of war that are contributing to the country’s humanitarian catastrophe, Human Rights Watch said in a report released 14 August 2011. All sides…
WEF Should Petition Ethiopia over Oromo Human Rights
Kenyan Magazine: The following is a letter from Kasembeli Albert, the Editor of the Kenyan magazine East Africa Investor, a regional financial magazine. Albert has recently written articles on the Oromo; the articles were published on the Kenyan magazine, The African Executive: Oromo Liberation Front: Who is Fooling Who? and…
Kidnappings and Disappearances of University Students
Ethiopia – HRLHA Urgent Action and Appeal Public – August 8, 2011, It has been a nightmare for families that the whereabouts of their children is not known since the end of the school year of 2011. Among Oromo students left their campuses up on the closure of the Universities…
Reign of terror in Maikelawi detention centre
August 4th, 2011 | by Lucy Keating | Published in All Stories, Ethiopia Aid Exposed Maikelawi is a police detention facility in the centre of the Ethiopian capital. It is mentioned time and again in any conversation about human rights abuses. Voices of the tortured For the Ethiopians’ it is the ‘African Guantanamo…
Britain and the EU have increased aid to Ethiopia while ignoring repeated diplomatic warnings of human rights abuse and concerns that Western funding is being used as a tool of repression by the country’s regime.
By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels 04 Aug 2011 An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and BBC Newsnight has found that as Ethiopia is hit by drought and famine, communities are being denied basic food, seed and fertiliser for failing to support Meles Zenawi, the country’s authoritarian leader. Senior Brussels…
Ethiopia A Long Way To Go In Achieving Human Rights Implementation
Geneva, 12th July 2011 – Ethiopia was reviewed on 11th and 12th July 2011 by the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the implementation of the Internation al Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Human Rights Committee welcomed the initial report on the implementation of the International Covenant on…
HRLHA URGENT ACTION, July 12, 2011
Kidnapping and Disappearances of Innocent Civilians in Central Oromia in Ethiopia Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) is highly concerned about the whereabouts and safety of seven Oromo nationals who were kidnapped and disappeared at different times and places in and around the capital Addis Ababa/Finfinne in…
Yemen:- Refugees Need Protections; Not Punishment
HRLHA: Urgent Action and Appeal Public July 6, 2011 The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) would like to express it deep sadness over the indiscriminate attacks against Oromo and Eritrean refugees in Sana’a, Yemen on the 3rd of July, 2011. According to HRLHA correspondents in Sana’a,…
Ethiopia: A Generation Targeted, the Futures of a Nation at Risk
HRLHA Urgent Action and Appeal, Public 11 May, 2011. Although there has been no single section of societies that the Ethiopian TPLF/EPRDF Regime has spared in the past 18 years, students have been among the prime targets of attacks. The Oromos in general and the Oromo Students in particular have…
Ethiopia: Human Rights League of the Horn Of Africa/HRLHA
Urgent Action and Appeal – PUBLIC 24 April, 2011 KIDNAPPING, DISAPPEARING, DEPORTING, FEAR OF TORTURE The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) would like to express its deep concern regarding the safety and whereabouts of three Oromos who were kidnapped by members of the security force of…
Ethiopia: Human Rights League of the Horn Of Africa/HRLHA Urgent Action and Appeal,
PUBLIC 11April, 2011 A Fierce Crackdown against University Students in South-Western Ethiopia In another episode of suppression, dictatorship, irresponsibility, and racism exercised by the TPLF/EPRDF government of Ethiopia, Oromo students at Mizab-Tepi University in south-western Ethiopia, and Haro Maya (Alemaya) University in Southeastern Oromia/Ethiopia, Hawasa University in Southern Ethiopia and…
Ethiopia to charge 121 Oromo prisoners with terrorism
By Barry Malone;- ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s government on Thursday said it was preparing to charge more than 100 prisoners with terrorism and dismissed calls by a rights groups to release them immediately. The government said it had arrested 121 people in March and accused them of being members of…
African Land, Up For Grabs
Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi, a citizen of Saudi Arabia, spends his time shuttling between Riyadh and Ethiopia, where he was born in a village 64 years ago. The son of a Yemeni father and Ethiopian mother, Al Amoudi boasts an estimated net worth of $10 billion. He is…
Ethiopia: Human Rights League of the Horn Of Africa (HRLHA) Urgent Action and Appeal
PUBLIC, 17 March 2011 Mass Arrests and Imprisonments in Ethiopia: Fear of Torture In continuous mass arrests and imprisonments that have been taking place for over a week in different parts of the regional state of Oromia, including Capital City Finfinnee/Addis Ababa, HRLHA reporters have confirmed that about one hundred people have been taken to prison, most…
Yemen: Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa/HRLHA Urgent Action and Appeal,
February 2011 PUBLIC, 21 February 2011 The Situations of Ethiopian, Oromo Refugees in Yemen Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) is highly concerned about the current situations and future fates of Ethiopian Oromo refugees in Yemen. According to recent reports obtained by HRLHA from its correspondents in…
