8 March 2009 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today added his voice to a chorus of United Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today added his voice to a chorus of United Nations officials calling for an end to the routine violence suffered by women and girls around the world, in a message marking the International Day for Women.
IEWO Forum celebrates March 8th, The International Women's Day!
Please join us for the International Women's Day & the first year anniversary of the launching of our paltalk discussion room. Come and support us on March 7 and 8 this weekend in our IEWO Forum from 11:00 am to 8:00pm CET and mornings in the USA.IEWO/AESED
We the undersigned call upon all human rights organizations and individuals who call for the respect of human rights to sign this petition asking the ruling EPRDF in Ethiopia to account on the whereabouts of the disappeared of whom some a few are named below. Read and sign the petition …..
March 8, 2009
MARCH 8 - INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
THE STRUGGLE OF ETHIOPIAN WOMEN FOR THEIR RIGHTS CONTINUES
March 8/2009
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
NO DAWN YET FOR ETHIOPIAN WOMEN
The violation of the rights of Ethiopian women has passed disgraceful levels ever since the EPRDF regime assumed power in May 1991.
Washington Update
March 6, 2009
- Congress has settled in and it is time to contact your elected representatives to urge them to introduce legislation supporting human rights, democracy and economic development inEthiopia.
Ethiopian-Americans should especially contact Rep. Donald Payne, tel. (202) 225-3436, and Rep
By Maru Gubena
As can be recalled, even though Ethiopian students were in Europe and the United States earlier, the history of the Ethiopian Diaspora began with the upheaval of the bloody 1974 Ethiopian revolution.
By Hama Tuma
The controversial International Criminal Court has finally come out with an arrest warrant for President Omar Beshir of the Sudan.
MARCH 4/2009
SOCEPP has time and again expressed its disappointment over flawed and incomplete reports on the human rights situation being made by the US State Department and other foreign human rights agencies. These reports, often biased and superficial, have made the reason for the existence of SOCEPP still valid. SOCEPP was established 14 years ago to focus on political prisoners FORGOTTEN or ignored by foreign (and one local) human rights bodies for unexplained reasons
Posted on March 4, 2009 by amnewsupdate
By Yilma Bekele
Adwa was a turning point in the history of non-Europeans everywhere. Adwa’s significance extends beyond our national borders. Our ancestor’s victory over the Italians made the smug Europeans rethink their relationship with those they considered ‘savage’ and needed enlightenment from the superior race. Ethiopians stood tall. After Adwa, fierce, compassionate and merciful is what they said about us.
Journalists in Ethiopia informed CPJ over the weekend that our Web site, which was blocked to Internet users in the capital, Addis Ababa, since August, was accessible again.
Independent Ethiopian online news forums and blogs based outside the country also reported that sites discussing political dissent and human rights were also suddenly accessible.
Jimma Times
Sunday 1 March 2009 03:11. |
February 28, 2009 (ADDIS ABABA) — An Ethiopian opposition party slammed the signing of defense agreement between South Africa and Ethiopia urging Pretoria to abrogate it without delay.
Zekarias Ezra
March 02, 2009
Prime Minister Meles recently re-announced his desire to leave the post of PM while retaining the Chairmanship of his most powerful political party. On the basis of technicality EPRDF and its ardent supporters might argue that the two posts are different. Many of us would not accept such argument and rightly so.
Community and its Future Initiatives: The Search for Alternative Mechanisms
By Maru Gubena
Before commencing with the thematic issues to be discussed, let me just express my personal views, disappointments and embarrassments related, not just to the untimely and sensational end of the working partnership among the imprisoned, then released, opposition leaders and the sudden split of their political party, but mainly to the appalling (and still persisting) war of words, with intolerable insults against innocent Ethiopians from the unorganized interest groups who.....
BBC NEWS
Tens of thousands of people have reportedly fled their homes as a result of fighting between rival groups in a remote part of southern Ethiopia.
The BBC's Elizabeth Blunt says 300 people may have been killed - mostly in a major battle on 5 February.
2008 Human Rights Reports: Ethiopia
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
February 25, 2009
Ethiopia is a federal republic led by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition. The population was approximately 77 million. In the 2005 parliamentary elections, the EPRDF won a third consecutive five-year term. In local and by-elections held in April the EPRDF and allied parties won virtually all of the more than three million seats contested, severely diminishing opportunities for mainstream political opposition. Prior to the vote, ruling coalition agents and supporters used coercive tactics and manipulation of the electoral process,
Dear fellow Ethiopians, Ethiopian-Americans, and all friends of Ethiopia:
Here in Washington, DC the stimulus bill is now finished and enacted. Now let’s focus on Ethiopia!
By Tegga Lendado, PhD
This article is dedicated to the victims of the recent drought, disease, malnutrition, famine, and others who are facing premature death in Southern Ethiopia. The purpose is to induce rational, religious and humanitarian response with its readers. From the outset, I beg that it should not be construed as a sectarian or political motivation.
Posted on February 25, 2009 by amnewsupdate
Hama Tuma
A loud hue and cry is being heard just because a Sierra Leonean Court found three former rebel leaders (of the Revolutionary United Front–RUF) guilty of war crimes. The accused were found guilty of what a CNN reporter termed creative torture (what is so creative about chopping hands and arms?).
By Obo Arada Shawl - February 23, 2009
For whom the bell tolls
Ethiopiawinet is abstract
Ethiopianism is concrete
Since there seems no agreement
What about the alternative medicine of Aagmelago as inspired by DEBu!
The unfinished journey of DEBTERAW
Versus
EPLF, TPLF and OLF
The why and the how’s: Today is the beginning of Fasting…
COLONIALSM?
A British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years has arrived back in the UK.
Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed, 30, landed at RAF Northolt in London on Monday afternoon, accompanied by Metropolitan Police officers.
The work that we do for Ethiopia and Ethiopians sometimes put us in contact with very interesting people from other areas of the globe. Recently we met with Rajmohan Gandhi, the grandson and biographer of Mohandas (Mahatma)
Gandhi, the liberator of India.
FEBRUARY 20/2009
The editor of the former Harambee newspaper, Wosen Seged Gebre Kidan, has been thrown again into the notorious Kality prison, because he was unable to pay the 3000 Birr payment imposed upon him for bail. Woseen Seged closed down his Harambee newspaper when print and paper costs sky rocketed shortly in a clear attempt by the regime to shut down some newspapers.
By Elizabeth Blunt
BBC News, Addis Ababa
Ethiopia's most famous pop singer, Teddy Afro, has had his sentence for manslaughter reduced on appeal.
He was jailed for causing the death of a young homeless man through dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of the accident.
By Alex Birhanu – alexbirhanu@yahoo.com
While reading a series of heated discussions on cyber-space in recent weeks, I came across flaring, fuming and flexing comments coming from Eritrean readers who request Ethiopian writers to abstain from including Eritrea and Issayas Afeworki in their descriptions;
By Firdu Yitayew
The Ethiopian and Eritrean Diaspora and home public are aware of the current heated debates on yet to be resolved burning national issues. At his capacity as the current AU Chairman, Colonel Gadafi promised recently to do his utmost regarding the Ethio-Eritrea stalemates, but in vain.
February 13/2009
EPRP DENOUNCES THE MILITARY COOPERATION
BETWEEN DJIBOUTI AND THE MELES ZENAWI REGIME
February 13/2009
EPRP CONDEMNS DEFENSE AGREEMENT
BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE MELES REGIME
By Firdu Yitayew
Surprisingly, both Afeworki and Zenawi still continue blowing their whistle of fictitious and self-proclaimed theories of Eritrea and Ethiopia thesis; and try to mobilize their respective public to join drum-beating for war yet to come.
By Obo Arada Shawl Febreuary 13, 2009
I have plenty of questions but I do not have the answers
The persistent past of political economy
For the last 150 years, the ideologies of Marxism, Nationalism and Liberalism have divided not only the Adam & Eve Society in particular but also had divided the whole humanity. Ideology refers to systems of thought and beliefs by which Aethiopians as a group or individuals had attempted to explain how the social system functions and the principles applied.
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By Alex Birhanu
Under Issayas Afeworki, the despotic god-father of pirates and terrorism, Eritrea succeeded to enter into a series of conflicts with all its neighbors indiscriminately since 1994;
By Abud Hassan
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A U.S. diplomat was found dead at his home in Addis Ababa, the U.S. embassy said on Thursday, and police have launched a criminal investigation.
The new African Union (AU) chairman, Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi, has said that multi-party democracy in Africa leads to bloodshed.
afrol News, 2 February - Ethiopian government has rejected the World Bank report giving it a high spot among its peers as the least developed Horn of African state in infrastructure.
Ethiopian court to rule on treason case against opposition chief
Le Mali en ligne - 9 hours ago
Ethiopia's High Court will on Thursday rule in a case in which opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa has been charged with treason, following the government's decision to revive a 2005 treason case in which she was convicted and later jailed for life.
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA Feb 03 2009 12:47
Ethiopian troops have crossed the border back into central Somalia, only days after Addis Ababa completed a military pullout from its neighbour, witnesses and officials said on Tuesday.
January 31, 2009
(EPRP PR)
According to press reports the European Union has given the Meles Zenawi regime €251m (US$329 million) in aid allegedly to boost development projects across the country.
Hama Tuma
The successful passage of H.R. 2003 in the most recent Congress, passed UNANIMOUSLY!, must now be used as a building block for this session, the 111th in American history.
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