The Guardian. The low social status of Ethiopian women lies at the root of violence against them and the tragic cases of two teenagers have galvanized female activists in their efforts to tackle it. Tejnesh Leweg’neh, a 15-year-old from Ethiopia’s mountainous northern...
Ethiopia passed the Charities and Societies Proclamation (CSP), (No.621/2009), in February 2009 to regulate the work of civil society organizations in the country. This Law classified Ethiopian organizations into Charities or Societies, Resident Societies and Foreign...
The Center for the Rights of Ethiopian Women (CREW) will have its fourth international conference of Ethiopian women in the Diaspora on March 7, 2015 in Washington, DC. The theme of the conference is \”the Role of Civil Society Organization (CSOs) in the...
OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS Ethiopia is a source and, to a lesser extent, destination and transit country for men, women, and children who are subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Girls from Ethiopia’s rural areas are exploited in...
January 2, 2015 BEIRUT – Migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are set to protect their rights under a trade union — the first such syndicate in the Arab world where more than 2.4 million foreign domestic workers labour under often harsh conditions. The Labor...