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…
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…
Save the Date: Ethiopia’s Stalled Democracy and a Spotlight on the Ogaden
HRLHA, On 7 December 2010 Ms Ana Gomes MEP will convene a hearing, ‘Ethiopia’s Stalled Democracy: A Spotlight on the Ogaden’ in Room ASP3H1 of the European Parliament in Brussels from 16.15–18.15 in collaboration with UNPO and African Rights Monitor FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov 26, 2010 – Brussels – Just…
Ethiopian Refugees Stranded at Yemen-Saudi Border
HRLHA, The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has appealed to international Communities to help the Ethiopian refugees stranded at the Yemen and Saudi boarder. According to a report by AFP, more than 1000 Ethiopian refugees are stranded near the Saudi border in Yemen without food, water or shelter. Below is…
Ethiopian Refugees Stranded at Yemen-Saudi Border
HRLHA, The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has appealed to international Communities to help the Ethiopian refugees stranded at the Yemen and Saudi boarder. According to a report by AFP, more than 1000 Ethiopian refugees are stranded near the Saudi border in Yemen without food, water or shelter. Below is…
Ethiopian Refugees Stranded at Yemen-Saudi Border
HRLHA, The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has appealed to international Communities to help the Ethiopian refugees stranded at the Yemen and Saudi boarder. According to a report by AFP, more than 1000 Ethiopian refugees are stranded near the Saudi border in Yemen without food, water or shelter. Below is…
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…
Sudan closes Darfur radio, rights group offices
By Opheera McDoom KHARTOUM, Nov 2 (Reuters) – Sudan shut the Khartoum office of Radio Dabanga, whose reports on Darfur have angered it, and arrested 13 staff from the radio station and a rights group that shares its offices, the group’s chairman said on Tuesday. U.S. ambassador to the United…
Sudan arrests nine Darfur activists-civic leader
Mon Nov 1, 2010, Mokhtar said the arrests began on Saturday but continued until last night. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s government forced many prominent human rights activists to flee Sudan in 2009 after the International Criminal Court indicted him for war crimes in Darfur. The court added genocide to the…
Ethiopia: Donor Aid Supports Repression
Contributors Should Review Development Programs, Monitor Use of Funds London) – The Ethiopian government is using development aid to suppresspolitical dissent by conditioning access to essential government programs on support for the ruling party, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch urged foreign donors to…
Somalia: UN concrete human rights action is needed.
EHAHRDP stressed the need for the UN to enhance human rights monitoring and reporting on Somalia. GENEVA (Sunatimes) The Human Rights Council (Council) and the UN in general should ensure that increased attention paid to Somalia, notably at the Council, converts into concrete action in the sphere of human rights…
Exodus of Youth from Zenawi’s Ethiopia through Kenyan Border: NTV Kenya Investigates
Hundreds of young people, who face political repression and economic destitution in Ethiopia, flee through the Kenyan border each week in search of better lives. Journalist Yasin Juma of NTV Kenya goes undercover to investigate as the emigrants seeking safe refuge cross the border into Kenya. The Kenyan authorities continue to…
