Implementation of International Human Rights Commitments and the Impact on Ongoing Legal Reforms in Ethiopia by Benedek, Wolfgang; Woldetsadik, Tadesse Kassa; Abebe, Tesfaye Abate;

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This edited volume on Implementation of International Human Rights Commitments and Implications on Ongoing Legal Reforms in Ethiopia offers an account of critical challenges in the implementation of international human rights in Ethiopia, which is undergoing major legal and political reforms.

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This edited volume on Implementation of International Human Rights Commitments and Implications on Ongoing Legal Reforms in Ethiopia addresses key themes of contemporary interest focused on identifying the gaps between Ethiopia?s human rights commitments and the practical problems associated with the realisation of human rights goals. Political and legal challenges affecting implementation at the domestic levels continue in Ethiopian ? the nature and complexity of which have been thoroughly expounded in this volume. This edition uncovers the key challenges involving civil and political rights, socio-economic rights and cultural and institutional dimensions of the implementation of human rights in Ethiopia ? while the country is absorbed in legal and political reforms.

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Tartalomjegyzék:

Preface

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations



Introduction

Part 1: Civil and Political Rights

 Incitement to Ethnic Hatred in Ethiopia and Freedom of Expression

  Asmelash Yohannes Teklu

 Extending Voting Rights to the Ethiopian Diaspora: Towards Institutionalising Diaspora Political Participation in Ethiopia

  Teguadda Alebachew

 The Right to Cross
-Examination and Witness Protection in Ethiopia: A Comparative Study

  Tadesse Melaku

Part 2: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

 The Need to Accommodate the Basic Rights of Ethno
-National Minorities in the Oromia Regional State of Federal Ethiopia

  Sisay Mengistie Addisu

 Assessing the Right to Property, Eviction and Compensation in Ethiopia vis
-?
-vis International Human Rights Law

  Zerihun Yimer Geleta

 Cultural Legitimisation of Human Rights: The Case of the Guraghe Ethno
-Cultural Community in Ethiopia

  Sisay Kinfe

Part 3: Vulnerable Groups

 Legal Empowerment of Women through Property Rights in Ethiopia

  Tesfaye Abate Abebe

 Ensuring the Compatibility of the Ethiopian Law on Legal Capacity with Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

  Mehreteab G. Ghebregergs

 The Right to Mental Health: A Critical Look at the State of Human Rights of the Mentally Ill in Ethiopia

  Wondwossen Wakene Frew

 Exploring Tax Incentive Mechanisms to Strengthen the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in the Private Workforce in Ethiopia

  Gebrehiwot Hadush and Biniam Mekonen

Part 4: Institutional and Remedial Issues

 From ?Rights in Law? to ?Rights in Action?: Towards an Effective Remedy for Human Rights Violations through Constitutional Complaint Procedures in Ethiopia

  Yemane Kassa Hailu

 Enforcement of Constitutional Bills of Rights in the Regional States of Ethiopia

  Mekonnen Fisseha and Gebrehiwot Hadush

 Assessing the Ethiopian House of Federation in the Light of the Exhaustion of the Local Remedies Rule under the African Charter

  Mulu Beyene Kidanemariam



 Index

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