Tuesday 12 April 2011

Ethiopia Violates Its Own Constitution, Laws – US State Department Report

BY NEW BUSINESS ETHIOPIA REPORTER
The new Human Right Report on Ethiopia launched this week by the United States Government State Department indicated that Ethiopian government has failed to implement its own constitution and several laws related to protecting human rights of its citizens.
From restricting press freedom, blocking websites and allowing abuses of child as well as women rights, to disrespecting the right of citizens to change their government, Ethiopia’s laws that are written on paper are being violated by the government. 

“The constitution and law provide citizens the right to change their government peacefully. In practice the country has never had a peaceful change of government, and the ruling EPRDF and its allies dominated the government,” the 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices noted.

The report also stated that the Ethiopian government has been restricting political participation through bureaucratic obstacles and government and ruling party intimidation, harassment, and arrests.

Discrimination, societal abuses, and trafficking in persons and freedom of association are also being violated in Ethiopia, according to the report.  “Although the law provides for freedom of association and the right to engage in unrestricted peaceful political activity, the government limited this right in practice.”

The report also noted that police and judicial corruption continued to be problems in Ethiopia while freedom of assembly is also not implemented in most cases. Continued

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