HRLHA – Press Release  January 20, 2012

The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) is highly concerned about the never ending incidences of government-sponsored violence in academic institutions and workplaces in Ethiopian in general and in the regional state of Oromia in particular. A very recent case in [...]

Many Ethiopian farmers struggle to survive on what they can grow

Ethiopia’s government has been accused of forcing tens of thousands of people off their land so it can be leased to foreign investors.

US-based Human Rights Watch says people are being forcibly relocated to new villages that lack adequate food, farmland [...]

  More Problems, Fewer Solutions

The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) wishes a stable, peaceful, joyful and healthy New Year for all of its members, supporters, staff, volunteers, and friends in the Horn of Africa Countries and elsewhere.

Leaving behind the old year and [...]

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The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa/HRLHA has been working for the past two decades to hold the Governments of the Horn of African countries to account for their gross human rights abuses in the Region. The efforts that the HRLHA has so far made in fight [...]

The Scrabble for the  land in Ethiopia by  Trance National Companies and  rich foreign states in the past four years had already  evicted more than 3million  people in Oromia, Gambela, Benshagule and other areas. To halt the land robbery of TPLF Government many international Civic Society Organizations and medias were demanding the donor [...]

The Oromo community of South Rogaland, Norway, released an appeal  demanding  the International Civic Organizations,  International Diplomats  and others to cooperate with  them to fight against  the TPLF Government to stop the land grab ruining the lives of million citizens in Oromia, Ogaden, Gambela, Benshangul and others.

The following is  an [...]

Freedom of the press has deteriorated considerably in Ethiopia this year, with a dozen journalists arrested in the past few weeks and the fate of two Swedish journalists on trial in Addis Ababa on terrorism charges expected to be known tomorrow.

Reporters Without Borders has written to Ben [...]

(63 Years with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

HRLHA Press Release – December 10, 2011

Today, we are celebrating the 63rd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  We have learnt from history that the evolution of the essence of human rights [...]