State: Harari

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
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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
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OPEN 41st Special Report: Inhuman and Cruel Violation of the Rights of Children

“The recent Ethio-Eritreen war, inter-ethnic conflicts in different corners of the country and the spread of HIV-AIDS have increased the number of the dislocated. There is no dispute as to the pathetic fact that most of the victims of these tragedies a
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