Human Rights | Horn Affairs

Ethiopia: Amnesty International: Sensationalism gone Wild

This article, by Daniel Berhnane, was first published on the Canadian "Centre for Research on Globalization" on Oct. 31, 2014.…

Friday, October 31, 2014 @ 10:57 pm

(Alicia Ely Yamin) CAMBRIDGE, Massachussetts, Oct 27 2014 (IPS) - The catastrophic Ebola crisis unfolding in West Africa offers many…

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 @ 9:59 pm

Ethiopia’s government illegally detained at least 5,000 members of the country’s most populous ethnic group, the Oromo, over the past…

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 @ 1:51 am

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) stirred controversy after presenting a revisionist version of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide - in which…

Friday, October 17, 2014 @ 2:57 am

(William Davison) An Ethiopian editor is facing as many as 10 years in prison after being convicted of inciting the…

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 @ 3:17 am

Ethiopian court passed prison sentences in absentia on three publishers. The defendants were charged two months ago with "incitement and…

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 @ 4:02 am

United Nations' Human Rights Council appointed Mike Smith (Australia) and Victor Dankwa (Ghana) to serve in the Commission of Inquiry,…

Friday, October 3, 2014 @ 10:09 pm

Book: ‘The Kampala Convention and Its Contributions to International Law’ Author: Dr. iur. Mehari Taddele Maru – DSL (JL Giessen), MPA…

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 @ 3:16 am

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have ordered Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to attend a hearing over how to…

Monday, September 22, 2014 @ 5:56 pm

The two Americans who had been charged with the abuse of two adopted Ethiopian children - escaped with light sentences.…

Saturday, September 20, 2014 @ 12:40 am