The death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, announced on 22nd August after his mysterious two-month disappearance, presents a tremendous opportunity to Ethiopia. Let a new day dawn for the people, one filled with hope and fundamental change,...
Incarcerated inside Israel:Palestinians Tortured and Isolated
Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation, and denial of access to appropriate health care. Such is the Israeli judicial system and prison confinement experienced by Palestinian men, women and, indeed, children....
Donor Dollars aiding political repression in Ethiopia
An ideological poison is polluting all life within Ethiopia, flowing into every area of civil society. Local governance, urban and rural neighbourhoods, farming, education and the judiciary all are washed in Revolutionary Democracy’, the doctrine of the ruling party...
Migrant nightmares: Ethiopian domestic workers in the Gulf
Employment opportunities in Ethiopia are scarce, particularly for young women with only a basic education who live in rural areas, where 85 per cent of the population reside...
Internet Intrusion: Increased Repression in Ethiopia
Freedom of expression, of assembly and communication is a basic human right, enshrined as such in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is not for a government - whose function is to serve the people, to decide who or indeed if it should be allowed...
The Ethiopian Land Giveaway: What’s Yours is Mine What’s Mine’s my Own.
It is a colonial phenomenon, appropriate land for the needs of the colonists and to hell with those living upon the land, indigenous and at home. Might is right, military or indeed economic. The power of the dollar rules supreme in a world...
Sharing – A growing trend
Humanity shares much; the Earth for one, the universals of joy and suffering, a similarity in nature and condition, some would say a universal soul, or divine essence...
Intimidated, Detained and Tortured: False Imprisonment in Ethiopia
Arrested, jailed and beaten, tortured and imprisoned, this the recipe for justice that the Ethiopian government serves up to dissenting voices. Men and women peacefully exercising their democratic right, demanding their human rights, crying out for their moral rights...
Media Control in Ethiopia: Democracy Denied
Democracy sits firmly upon principles of freedom, justice, social inclusion and participation in civil society. Where these qualities of fairness are absent, so too is democracy. It is easy enough to speak of democratic values; to dismantle repressive methods and State practices that deny their expression is quite another....
Hurt and abused Children in Ethiopia
Almost half the 82 million[2] population of Ethiopia are under 14 years of age, the children of a new time. Throughout the World the call for justice, freedom and unity is being made loud and clear. It is overwhelmingly the young who cry out, often in pain and anguish,...
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