The Center for the Advancement of Rights and Democracy (CARD), under its Media Literacy Program, in collaboration with Internews’ INSPIRES Project, plans to implement a research project focusing on legislation related to media space in the last three years. The study will assess major changes and evaluate the practical implementation or effects of the legal […]
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Coalition of NGO, Diaspora Groups Support Ethiopia Human Rights Resolution
September 13, 2016, Washington D.C. The undersigned civil society organizations applaud U.S. Representatives Chris Smith, Keith Ellison and Mike Coffman for introducing the House Resolution entitled “Supporting human rights and encouraging inclusive governance in Ethiopia.” The resolution, introduced today as companion legislation to S.Res.432, addresses the ongoing human rights abuses and political instability in Ethiopia. […]
Zone9 Bloggers case, Presented to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Six Zone9bloggers collective members and three other independent journalists are in detention since last April 2014. accusation of Ethiopian government which suspected them in working with human rights organizations was changed to terrorism after 23 days of interrogation. after three months on interrogation detention , all of them including one more blogger in absentia were […]