ADDIS ABABA, Feb 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Labour brokers in Ethiopia who illegally send workers into the clutches of abusive employers and traffickers abroad could face life imprisonment ...

Ethiopia’s human rights situation since 2009 has been marked by a harsh intolerance for any criticism of government actions and a sharp decline in freedoms of expression and association. Critics of ...

Few geopolitical questions in the Horn of Africa carry as much symbolic and strategic weight as Ethiopia’s demand for access to the sea. Landlocked since ...

The Ethiopian parliament on Thursday passed a legislation that criminalizes hate speech and fake news, a move criticized by human rights groups as a threat to freedom of expression. The Hate Speech ...

(New York) - Ethiopia's parliament should reject a draft law that would criminalize human rights activity and seriously undermine civil society groups, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights ...

Since 2018, the list of sectors open to foreign investment has expanded, including logistics and telecoms. In February, the Ethiopian Parliament completed a draft law to allow partial foreign entry ...

Addis Ababa — An eminent law scholar and patriarch of many Ethiopian law graduates, who sued a Kenyan Publishing Company had his case thrown out of court last week. Professor Claude Summner was a ...

To fulfil its promise to fight impunity, Ethiopia needs to enact legislation criminalising gross human rights violations. In June 2018, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali told Parliament that ...

ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Labour brokers in Ethiopia who illegally send workers into the clutches of abusive employers and traffickers abroad could face life imprisonment under a new ...