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Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 03:00
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Human rights [2]
Issue Number: 
111 [3]
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Despite the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ethiopians are in no better position today than they were in the 1940’s when it comes to bringing human rights violators to justice. This time, however, we only have the Ethiopian Government to blame. Thus far, close to 90 states (at least 19 states from Africa, including Djibouti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Zambia) are parties to the ICC Statute and a number of other states are expected to join soon. Et...read more [4]

Despite the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ethiopians are in no better position today than they were in the 1940’s when it comes to bringing human rights violators to justice. This time, however, we only have the Ethiopian Government to blame. Thus far, close to 90 states (at least 19 states from Africa, including Djibouti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Zambia) are parties to the ICC Statute and a number of other states are expected to join soon. Ethiopia does not appear in either list, says this article from the Addis Tribune.

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Human Security [5]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/rights/15110 [6]
Country: 
Ethiopia [7]

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