Helawit with Menabe and Yilak and her mother, Yemi Helawit with Menabe and Yilak and her mother, Yemi. Below: Helawit at the award ceremony with Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty Helawit at the award ceremony with Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty THE daughter of a British man held on death row in Ethiopia has been lauded
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Helawit with Menabe and Yilak and her mother, Yemi Helawit with Menabe and Yilak and her mother, Yemi. Below: Helawit at the award ceremony with Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty Helawit at the award ceremony with Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty THE daughter of a British man held on death row in Ethiopia has been lauded
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By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – Swiss police were guarding three U.N. investigators into Eritrea’s human rights record in Geneva on Wednesday after a top official said they had received threats on the street and at their hotel. The inquiry’s report published earlier this month showed human rights violations in Eritrea that may amount to
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Sputnik News According to a report in Oil Price.com “major discoveries in Uganda and Kenya, high-level production activities in Sudan and even exploration in war-torn Somalia,” as well as the North African country of “Eritrea should be on everyone’s radar.” The visit was followed up by UK based exploration and development company, Ortac Resources, which
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By UN News Release GENEVA (24 April 2015) – The Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, and the Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, today said the detention of the six so-called “Zone Nine” bloggers and three other journalists in Ethiopia over the past year
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Vice WARNING: This article contains disturbing images Ethiopia, one of the world’s hungriest countries, is selling off vast chunks of its land to foreign investors who are growing food products for export — and those who get in the government’s way are being killed or silenced, according to a new investigation. Under the country’s controversial “villagization”
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IRIN Photo: Lauren Everitt/AllAfrica Addis Ababa — After decades battling high maternal death rates – at least a third of which were due to botched abortions – Ethiopia took a stand: it prioritized newborn and maternal health, and in 2005 it relaxed its abortion law in an effort to save women’s lives. Stopping short of legalizing
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LA Times By MERON AHADU AND LULIT MESFIN When Secretary of State John F. Kerry traveled to Ethiopia last year, he met a young blogger named Natnael Feleke. When he returned a few months ago, Kerry found that Feleke, along with five other bloggers and three journalists, had been arrested — the latest in a long
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UN News Center The United Nations human rights chief today condemned the crackdown on journalists in Ethiopia and the increasing restrictions on freedom of opinion and expression in the Horn of Africa nation. The comments by High Commissioner for Human…
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March 21, 2014 By Tom Paulson Bill Easterly William Easterly is a leading voice on the aid and development scene that folks seem to either love or hate. Bill Gates is in the latter camp, as this Gates Foundation blog…
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