Global Human Rights News
| SOMALIA: "Dwindling shelter and little water" Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Photo: Abdijamal Moalim/IRIN
A displaced person in the village of... Read more |
| Human Rights Watch Report Critical of EthiopiaFriday, 22 January 2010Ethiopia is on a deteriorating human rights trajectory as parliamentary elections approach in 2010. These will be the first national elections since... Read more |
| SOMALIA: Nuuro Mohamed, "When will we stop running?" Saturday, 09 January 2010 (IRIN) - For Nuuro Mohamed, 40, a mother of six, the past two years have been marked by constant flight. She fled her home in Huriwa district... Read more |
| many migrants continue to be victims of rights violations – top UN officialTuesday, 05 January 2010The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights marked International Migrants Day today by drawing attention to the plight of an estimated 200... Read more |
| Welcome speech on HRLHA 2nd annual Fundraising DinnerSaturday, 26 December 2009 By Garoma Wakessa :- Executive Director of Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa/HRLHA at the organization's 2nd annual Fundraising... Read more |
| In Brief: Pilgrims "helping to spread AWD" in Ethiopia Tuesday, 13 October 2009
NAIROBI, 7 October 2009 (IRIN) - The movement of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to and from holy sites as well as... Read more |
| Human Rights Watch - UK-Ethiopia Agreement on Deportations Puts Suspects at RiskMonday, 21 September 2009September 17, 2009
Letter to British Foreign Secretary Miliband on Diplomatic Assurances with Ethiopia. Expecting an Ethiopian... Read more |
| Cases of deadly diarrhoea mount in Ethiopian capital, warns UNWednesday, 09 September 2009
9 September 2009 – The United Nations emergency humanitarian relief wing today warned of an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea rife in the... Read more |
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Press Releases and Urgent Actions
URGENT ACTION No2 February 2010
Monday, 15 February 2010
HRLHA URGENT ACTION No2 February 2010 Appeal to regional and international human rights agencies and organizations Arrest, Torture and Deportation of Refugee Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) has learnt through its informants that the government of Somaliland, in violation of international treaties, arbitrarily apprehended Yasin Adam Ahmed [UN...Press Release No1January 2010 A Region-wide Wave of Violence against Citizens Underway in Ethiopia
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
HRLHA Press Release No1January 2010, ...Urgent Action No1 January 2010
Saturday, 09 January 2010
HRLHA Urgent Action No1 January 2010 Kidnappings and Disappearances of Students in Southern Ethiopia Your Excellency Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, PO Box 1031, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tel. 251 111552044 or 251 11 1113241 Fax: +251 11 1552030 In a recently launched wave of kidnappings and arrests against...HRLHA Press Release No 22 December 2009
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Refugees Poisoned to Death In Puntland,Somalia Four Oromo refugees from Ethiopia have mysteriously been poisoned to death in Bosasso, Puntland in Somalia on the 12th of December, 2009. 1. Mahaddi Abdurrahman Ali 2. Abdi...HRLHA Press Release No21 December 2009
Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Victimization of Refugees Continues in Puntland According to documents obtained by HRLHA from its reporters in Bosaso, Puntland, a refugee has been killed and twenty six others injured on December 1st 2009 at around 7:30 PM with what was believed to have been a hand grenade thrown by unidentified group of people. This attack, which happened in the town of Bosaso/Puntland, Halo Kismayo #1 area, only three weeks after the gunning down of two Oromo refugees in...A Call for Collective Humanitarian Action
Sunday, 01 November 2009
From: HRLHA - Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) was formed in June 2007 in Toronto, Canada by exiled members of a human rights organization called Human Rights League (HRL), originally from Ethiopia. The Human Rights League (HRL), on the other hand, was founded in December 1996 in Addis Ababa/Finfinne, Ethiopia by nationalist Oromos and others from all walks of life. The idea of forming HRL was conceived in URJII newspaper’s office. It was a non-governmental...HRLHA Press Release No 20 October 2009
Sunday, 25 October 2009
The plights of Oromo and Somali Refugees in Yemen, Where They Fled to As a Safe Haven Is Turning a Hell Hundreds of Oromos and Somalis from Ethiopia and Somalia, who fled their respective countries due to political unrests, are currently facing very harsh situations including forced labour and extrajudicial imprisonment. According to HRLHA representative in San’a, Yemen, hundreds of Oromo and Somali refugees, who were apprehended at different times from different places in Yemen on...HRLHA Press Release No19 September 2009
Monday, 28 September 2009
Many Oromos Face another Bundle of Charges, HRLHA Considers Them Prisoners of Conscien Seventy three Oromo nationals, ages ranging between the youngest of 18 and the oldest of 80 years, have recently been taken to court with another list of the usual political charges, which included allegedally conspiring along with OLF (Oromo Liberation Front) – an armed opposition political organization to unlawfully remove the government from power. The details of this newest bundle...Focus
| UN Human Rights Council Kicks off its 13th SessionFriday, 05 March 2010Human rights chief’s annual report to the Human Rights Council
High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on 4 March presented her annual report to the Human Rights Council. She also... Read more |
| AU’s Mbeki panel optimistic on holding fair and free elections in SudanWednesday, 03 March 2010March 2, 2010 (PARIS) – Sudan has the ability hold fair and free elections despite emerging from decades of civil war, an African Union (AU) panel said this week.
“Holding free and fair... Read more |
| Ethiopian Opposition Candidate Stabbed to DeathWednesday, 03 March 2010ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An opposition candidate for Ethiopia’s Parliament was stabbed to death early Tuesday in what opposition leaders said was part of a widening... Read more |
| Ethiopia: Aid money was spent on armsWednesday, 03 March 2010
A recent document released by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has revealed that millions of dollars, allocated for victims of the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85, went into buying weapons... Read more |
| OSA - OPEN LETTER TO THE UN ...Friday, 26 February 2010 To: His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary-General, the United Nations
Office of the Secretary General
885 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Dear Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon:
I am... Read more |
| Horn of Africa's Poor Press Conditions DecriedFriday, 19 February 2010CPJ - The Horn of Africa region is among the most dangerous places in the world to work as a journalist, according to a global watchdog group. The Committee to Protect Journalists says numerous... Read more |
| SOMALIA: Drought-hit Somaliland pleads for aid Friday, 19 February 2010SOMALIA: Drought-hit Somaliland pleads for aid
HARGEISA, 16 February 2010 (IRIN) - Officials in Somalia's self-declared independent republic of Somaliland have appealed to the international... Read more |
| Rush for Land Grab in Ethiopia - The Human Rights Issue of Our Time Thursday, 11 February 2010
By Oromsis Adula
As Election Day fast approaches, Ethiopians are under a cloud of fear and... Read more |
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