State: Afar

OPEN Joint Submission to the 19th Session of the Universal Periodic Review

In this document, CIVICUS, EHAHRDP and HRCO outline urgent concerns related to the environment in which civil society activists and human rights defenders operate in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and discuss threats faced in the exercise …

OPEN Report: Impact of the CSO Proclamation on the Human Rights Council

In 2008 there were 127 rights-based, non-governmental organizations operating in Ethiopia.1 Largely dependent on foreign donor assistance, Ethiopia’s nascent human rights community acted as a bulwark against the rapidly deteriorating respect for civil …

OPEN Special Report No. 89: Human Rights Violations Committed Against Members and Supporters of the Opposition Parties Should be Stopped

“The Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO) has repeatedly urged for the immediate stoppage of human rights violations such as killing, illegal detention, beating, torture and harassments committed by various organs of the Government so that the proble …