Global Human Rights News Update
| SOMALIA: "Dwindling shelter and little water" Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Photo: Abdijamal Moalim/IRIN
A displaced person in the village of Dudun Hagarey, near Dusamareb (file photo)
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| 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 2005, when post-election protests resulted in the... 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 of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in early 2008 due... 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 million migrants worldwide, many of whom are... Read more |
| NewsSunday, 06 December 2009
ERITREA-SUDAN: A forgotten refugee problem
Photo: Maram Mazen/IRIN
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| DonationsSaturday, 28 November 2009
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| 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 migrant labourers to private farms is contributing to... 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 government-sponsored commission to monitor torture cases is... Read more |
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Press Releases and Urgent Actions
HRLHA Press Release No1January 2010 A Region-wide Wave of Violence against Citizens Underway in Ethiopia
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
HRLHA Press Release No1January...HRLHA Urgent Action No 8 January 2010
Saturday, 09 January 2010
Kidnappings and Disappearances of Students in Southern Ethiopia Your Excellency Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, PO Box 1031, Addis Ababa,...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...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...HRLHA URGENT ACTION No7 November 2009
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Refugees Are Entitled to Safety and Protection Appeal To: The President of Puntland State of Somalia November 19, 2009, His Excellency President .Dr.Abdirahman Mohamed Mohamud (Farole), President of the Puntland State of Somalia...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...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...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...HRLHA Press Release No 18 August, 2009
Friday, 31 July 2009
HRLHA Press Release No 18 August, 2009 Mass Arrest and Imprisonment of Oromos is Continued in the Ethiopian Capital, Addis Ababa According to documents obtained by the HRLHA from its informants in Addis Ababa,another wave of arrest and...Voice of the Voiceless from Behind the Bar
Saturday, 25 July 2009
PART I 25 July, 2009 HRLHA, The majority of Ethiopians have been living in fear under a very harsh suppression with little hope of freedom and stable life in the near future. Especially in the last seventeen years, for most Ethiopians,...Voice of the Voiceless from Behind the Bar
Saturday, 25 July 2009
PART II 25 July, 2009 HRLHA Prisoners Whose Cases are Pending ...Voice of the Voiceless from Behind the Bar
Saturday, 25 July 2009
PART III 25 July, 2009 HRLHA , Family prisoners 1. Atsede...Ethiopian Government Seeks Safeguards under Anti-Terrorism Proclamation
Saturday, 11 July 2009
July 09, 2009, HRLHA Press Release The Ethiopian parliament passed on July 07, 2009 the so called anti-terrorism proclamation. The government claims that the proclamation is intended to combat terrorism. However, the HRLHA...Amnesty International Press Release
Thursday, 09 July 2009
New Anti-Terrorism Proclamation Jeopardizes Freedom of Expression Press Release July 08, 2009 Reacting to the news that the Ethiopian Parliament has today passed an Anti-Terror Proclamation in Ethiopia, Amnesty International warns that the law...
In Focus
| Ethiopia Cracks Down on DissentMonday, 18 January 2010Kenyans have more freedom to protest Gibe 3 Dam than Ethiopians. (Photo courtesy Friends of Lake Turkana)
We recently received the good news that the African Development Bank’s independent... Read more |
| Big dam, bigger problemsMonday, 18 January 2010Lori Pottinger, Lori Pottinger works in the Africa program of the environmental group International Rivers.
Right now, the Obama administration is participating in its first annual meeting of the... Read more |
| Six Sudanese men executed amid fears of unfair trialsFriday, 15 January 2010Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the execution of six men accused of murdering 13 policemen during clashes over a forced eviction in Khartoum, Sudan in 2005.
The organization said it... Read more |
| UN human rights expert urges China to cancel planned executionWednesday, 06 January 2010
Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
A United Nations human rights expert today urged China to cancel the scheduled execution of a man... Read more |
| UN human rights chief calls for universal abolition of the death penaltyTuesday, 05 January 2010 The top United Nations human rights official today called for the universal abolition of the death penalty, citing a host of reasons ranging from the fundamental right to life to the... Read more |
| S.Sudan vote could lead to war, says top adviserTuesday, 05 January 2010
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudan's vote on independence next year will lead to a new war unless key questions of the north-south border, nationality and external debts are resolved, a... Read more |
| Welcome speech at HRLHA 2nd annual Fundraizing DinnerSaturday, 26 December 2009 Welcome Speech at HRLHA 2nd annual Fundraising
By Garoma Wakessa :- Executive Director of Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa/HRLHA
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| In Brief: Record exodus from Horn Friday, 25 December 2009NAIRBI, 23 December 2009 (IRIN) - More people made the journey from the Horn of Africa to Yemen in 2009 than ever before, despite the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden being one of the most dangerous... Read more |
| HR defenders in Sudan violently arrested, harassed, and releasedSunday, 13 December 2009HR defenders in Sudan violently arrested, harassed, and released
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights... Read more |
| Ineffective disaster management Thursday, 10 December 2009NAIROBI, 6 May 2009 (IRIN) - Ineffective disaster management systems, poor funding and lack of relevant data for planning risk-reduction activities have taken their toll on sub-Saharan African... Read more |
| UNICEF Appeals for Concerted Efforts to Avert Humanitarian Crisis in S/Sudan Sunday, 06 December 2009UNICEF Appeals for Concerted Efforts to Avert Humanitarian Crisis in S/Sudan
NAIROBI, 6 July 2009 (IRIN) - Women's groups in embattled Mogadishu are stepping into the... Read more |
| Latest Victim of Institutinalized TortureSunday, 06 December 2009 ETHIOPIA
Article 2 of the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment states that: "Each State party shall take effective legislative,... Read more |
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