Ethiopia
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Africa’s Premier Human Rights Institution Makes Landmark Decision on the Right to Vote in Ethiopia
Tags Share Right to vote upheld in Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Institute for Human Rights in Africa (for the people of Ethiopia) v. The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. RFK Human Rights and the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) welcome the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’s (the…
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Empowering Local Leadership: Transforming Development Aid with Bottom-Up Solutions
Tags Share Coinciding with World Water Day on March 22, John Lewis Young Leader Hana Kebede shared commentary about the challenges that persist in her native Ethiopia surrounding access to clean water. Having seen firsthand how millions of Ethiopians are still living without essential infrastructure like clean water and electricity, Kebede, a senior at Tufts…
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#RFKChat: We are very concerned about surveillance and internet shutdowns, says CPJ’s Gypsy Guillén Kaiser
Tags Share On Tuesday May 31, 2022, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights hosted a Tweet Chat with Gypsy Guillén Kaiser, Director of Advocacy and Communications at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The conversation, our second on the issue of press freedom in the month of May, focused on the challenges journalists currently face, from…
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Journalist Zelalem Workagegnehu Found Guilty Under Anti-Terror Law
Tags Share The Federal High Court Lideta 19 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, found blogger, journalist, and activist Zelalem Workagegnehu guilty under Article 7(1) of Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorism Proclamation on April 15, 2016. Though Zelalem denied his affiliations with any political party and believed in non-violent change, his charges and conviction under Ethiopia’s anti-terrorism laws are consistent…
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Briefing Paper: Imperiling the Right to Vote in Ethiopia
Tags Share As Ethiopia prepares to hold its parliamentary elections on May 24, 2015, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights has written a briefing paper detailing several pre-electoral violations that jeopardize the right to vote and the right to participate in government in the country. Over the last several years, and with increasing intensity in recent…
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African Democracy at Stake in Ethiopia
The definition of free and fair elections across Africa may be determined by this case.
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