Friday, March 29, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Ethiopia's ruling coalition completes transition after Meles
Ethiopia's ruling coalition re-elected Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn
Ethiopia thwarts kidnap-for-ransom plot against UN staff
March 26, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopian security forces have thwarted an alleged kidnapping plot by members of Somalia Islamist extremist group, against foreign United Nations aid workers based in Ethiopia’s
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Ethiopia: Journalism under anti-terrorism law - Al Jazeera Video
Ethiopia: Journalism under anti-terrorism law
Ethiopia: Journalism under anti-terrorism law
Source: Al Jazeera
How the US 'war on terror' has provided cover for laws that are being used to silence dissident journalists.
When the Paris-based media watchdog group, Reporters Without Borders released its annual Press Freedom Index, few were surprised that Ethiopia had dropped 11 places to 137.
AMISOM says ready for Ethiopia withdrawal from Somalia towns
Ethiopian withdrawal has forced AMISOM
and Somali government to take steps to fill
in the potential security vacuum
and Somali government to take steps to fill
in the potential security vacuum
World Bank told to investigate links to Ethiopia 'villagisation' project
An Anuak village in southern Ethiopia. The World Bank is under fire for links between its funds and relocation of Ethiopians. Photograph: Alamy
An independent panel has called for an investigation into a World Bank-funded project in Ethiopia
Senior members resign from Ethiopia’s ruling party
March 22, 2013 (Mekelle, ETHIOPIA) - Four senior leaders of the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF)
Ethiopian government uses a Spysoftware /Malware and images of members Ginbot 7 to Spy Ethiopians
Summary of Key Findings
- We have found command and control servers for FinSpy backdoors, part of Gamma International’s FinFisher “remote monitoring solution,” in a total of 25 countries: Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Qatar, Serbia, Singapore, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam.
Human Rights Watch World Report 2013 – Ethiopia
Ethiopia
The sudden death in August 2012 of Ethiopia’s long-serving and powerful prime minister, Meles Zenawi, provoked uncertainty over the country’s political transition, both domestically and among Ethiopia’s international partners. Ethiopia’s human rights record has sharply deteriorated, especially over the past few years, and although a new prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, took office in September
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Can Norway show the UK how to prosper outside the EU?
As the UK builds up to a possible referendum on EU membership, people will be searching for hints at what life might be like outside the union.
And one country many Euro-sceptics are keen to point to is Norway.
Despite several referendums of its own, it has consistently chosen to stay outside the EU.
But that does not mean it has nothing to do with the member states.
Around 75% of its trade is with the EU, and its economy is booming
excerpt from “No way in, no way out?” description of the Norwegian asylum procedure
The asylum application process: from asylum seeker to irregular migrant
“”The question is therefore whether migrants have access to information about rights and about possible outcomes to their application – also what a rejection could entail“”
“” .. Based on available information (e.g. Zhang 2008), most irregular migrants in Norway are rejected asylum seekers. Understanding the application process is therefore central in understanding how people become irregular migrants. In this section, we give a brief introduction to the way the asylum process is formally supposed to take place.
NEW ISSUES IN REFUGEE RESEARCH
Asylum, understood as ‘the protection that a state grants on its territory or in some other place
under the control of certain of its organs to a person who comes to seek it,’1
is a well-known
World Report 2013 - Ethiopia
The sudden death in August 2012 of Ethiopia's long-serving and powerful prime minister, Meles Zenawi, provoked uncertainty over the country's political transition, both domestically and among Ethiopia's international partners
Ethiopia: Future of last remaining human rights monitoring NGO in the balance
On February 3, 2012, the Cassation Bench of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia will hear a petition by the Human Rights Council (HRCO), Ethiopia’s oldest human rights organization, to admit an appeal against the freezing of its bank accounts. Amnesty International, ARTICLE 19, CIVICUS,
Charges renewed against Ethiopian journalist Temesghen
Nairobi, February 8, 2013 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the revival of criminal charges against Ethiopian journalist Temesghen Desalegn today in what appears to be a politicized court hearing designed to censor one of the few critical voices left in the country.
A court revived criminal charges against Temesghen Desalegn today. (CPJ)
A judge in the Federal High Court in the capital, Addis Ababa, revived three charges against Temesghen, former chief editor of the now-defunct Feteh, and one against the general manager of Mastewal Publishing, the publishing company that formerly printed Feteh, according to local journalists who attended the hearing. Temesghen faces charges of "outrages against the constitution," defaming the government, and false publication of articles, while the manager of Mastewal Publishing faces an unspecified charge for allowing the weekly to be published. Under Ethiopian law, a printing company is also held accountable for a press offense by a publication that it publishes.
Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights
“No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
Rule 39, as an interim measure, has the power to require a State Party to refrain 
from removing an applicant to a country where he or she may be at real risk of a violation of his or her fundamental rights
from removing an applicant to a country where he or she may be at real risk of a violation of his or her fundamental rights
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