By Tigist Geme, Aljazeera Hanna Lalango, 16, died on Nov. 1, from a brutal gang rape after five men kidnapped and held her captive for several days in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. Hanna attended a private high school in the city’s Ayer Tena neighborhood. On Oct....
By Tadias Magazine The Yellow Movement at Addis Ababa University — an initiative co-founded by law school lecturer Blen Sahilu and a group of students organized to advocate for the protection of women from gender based violence — is bringing international attention...
In order to push gender equality forward, we need to measure and track gender gaps over time. That\’s precisely the goal of the World Economic Forum (WEF)\’s annual Global Gender Gap Index, which published its latest report last week. It analyzes the gaps...
By: Kumera Genet It is over a year since the highest court in the Dominican Republic issued Resolution TC 0168/13, a ruling that stripped the citizenship of up to 250,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent. Since this ruling, the legislative, executive and judicial...
By: David Smith, The Guardian Thinktank accuses Ethiopian government of stirring ethnic tensions as Suri displaced to make way for large plantations. Ethiopia’s policy of leasing millions of hectares of land to foreign investors is encouraging human rights violations,...
