The Center for the Advancement of Rights and Democracy (CARD) identified rooms in the draft personal data protection (PDP) proclamation of Ethiopia and gave recommendations for revision before the law is adopted and enacted. First introduced in 2020 by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MiNT) and later updated in 2021, the draft bill acknowledges […]
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Joint letter on addressing the pervasive human rights crisis in Ethiopia
To Permanent Representatives of Members and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council Geneva, 25 May 2017 RE: Addressing the pervasive human rights crisis in Ethiopia Your Excellency, The undersigned civil society organisations write to draw your attention to persistent and grave violations of human rights in Ethiopia and the pressing need to support […]
AAU Students – August 12 Hearing
On the case of the 20 Oromo students of Addis Ababa University, who have been arrested and charged for holding a demonstration in front of the US Embassy in Addis Ababa, 11 of them who were given a verdict to defend themselves had filed their defense evidence documents during the previous trial session. It […]
