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• The justiciability of socio-economic rights in Ethiopia / Dr. Mesenbet Assefa
• The right of IDPs to get compensation for property lost or damaged during displacement in Ethiopia: the practice in Dire Dawa City / Firaol Ofga Binagde
• Recognition of a right to safe, clean, health and sustainable environment as human rights by the UNHRC: significance and implications / Dr. Mellese Damtie.

• Ethiopia and its legal system : the context
• Arbitration agreement : validity, lapse and interpretation
• Arbitrability
• The normative basis for decision on the merits and procedural conduct of arbitration : the extent of party autonomy
• Kompetenz-Kompetenz and separability
• Judicial review of arbitral awards
• Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards
• The institutional setting for international commercial arbitration

This book is the first-ever to explore commercial arbitration in the Ethiopian context. Alternative conflict resolution mechanisms are nothing new to the country: arbitration as a dispute settlement mechanism by which a third party issues a binding decision on a dispute between two or more parties by exercising the jurisdictional mandate conferred on it by the parties themselves was established with the adoption of the Civil Code in 1960. This pioneering book evaluates the extent to which Ethiopia's laws and institutions allow disputing parties to effectively reap the benefits of international commercial arbitration. It interprets the relevant legislation and attempts to bridge the gaps in it, in order to help lawyers, arbitrators, arbitral institutions, academics and judges to understand and apply it. It also helps parties seeking to complete international transactions pertaining to Ethiopia make the right choice regarding conflict resolution.
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• Introduction
• The decision to prosecute core crimes : contexts and contents
• The decisions to prosecute : possible motivations
• The decisions to prosecute : who should be brought to justice?
• The crime of genocide in Ethiopian Law
• The crime of genocide in Ethiopian trials : elements of the crime
• War crimes in Ethiopia : law and practice
• Punishment and sentencing of core crimes in Ethiopia
• Conclusion

Tadesse Simie Metekia's Prosecution of Core Crimes in Ethiopia offers an in-depth analysis of core crimes trials in Ethiopia within the broader frame of international criminal law. This book is a result of an unprecedented data collection, a meticulous exploration of relevant national and international norms and case laws, as well as a full engagement with the existing literature on the domestic application of international criminal law. A comparative examination of the actual trials and the manner in which Ethiopia set prosecutions of core crimes in motion, Metekia's book is a significant achievement in terms of furthering academic knowledge and of contributing to the wider policy debates on international criminal justice and on the role of states in prosecuting atrocities.
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• Introduction / Susanne Epple
• Towards widening the constitutional space for customary justice systems in Ethiopia / Getachew Assefa
• The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and African societies / Karl-Heinz Kohl
• Understanding customary laws in the context of legal pluralism / Gebre Yntiso
• The handling of homicide in the context of legal pluralism : cooperation between government and customary institutions in the Gamo highlands / Temechegn Gutu
• The interplay of customary and formal legal systems among the Tulama Oromo : cooperation and competition / Melaku Abera
• Federal Sharia courts in Addis Ababa : their administration and the application of law in the light of recent developments / Mohammed Abdo
• Use and abuse of the "right to consent" : forum shopping between shimgilinna and state courts among the Amhara of Ankober, northcentral Ethiopia / Desalegn Amsalu
• Local strategies to maintain cultural integrity : the vernacularization of state law among the Bashada and Hamar of southern Ethiopia / Susanne Epple
• Legal pluralism and Protestant Christianity : from fine to forgiveness in an Aari community / Julian Sommerschuh --- Kontract : a hybrid form of law among the Sidama / Muradu Abdo
• Legal pluralism and emerging legal hybridity : interactions between the customary, state and religious law among the Siltie of southern Ethiopia / Kairedin Tezera
• A matter of perspective : of transfers, switching, and cross-cutting legal procedures : juridical processes among Oromo and Amhara, East Shewa / Andrea Nicolas
• When parallel justice systems lack mutual recognition : negative impacts on the resolution of criminal cases among the Borana Oromo / Aberra Degefa
• Combatting infanticide in Bashada and Hamar : the complexities behind a 'harmful traditional practice' in southern Ethiopia / Susanne Epple
• Clashing values : the 2015 conflict in Hamar district of South Omo Zone, southern Ethiopia / Yohannes Yitbarek

Being a home to more than 80 ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory. This volume explores the co-existence of state, customary, and religious legal forums from the perspective of legal practitioners and local justice seekers. It shows how the various stakeholders' use of negotiation, and their strategic application of law can lead to unwanted confusion, but also to sustainable conflict resolution, innovative new procedures and hybrid norms. The book thus generates important knowledge on the conditions necessary for stimulating a cooperative co-existence of different legal systems.
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• Introduction
• 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
• 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-à-vis international human rights law / Zerihun Yimer Geleta
• Cultural legitimisation of human rights : the case of the Guraghe ethno-cultural community in Ethiopia / Sisay Knife
• 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 (CRDP) / 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
• From 'rights in law' to 'rights in action' : towards an effective remedy for human rights violations through constitutional complaint procedures in Ethiopia / Yemane Kass 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

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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• Background: Child rights, international law and national measures of harmonization
• Ethiopia: Overview of policy and legislative initiatives in harmonization and issues of institutional mandate
• The conceptual framework of a "comprehensive child law"
• A comparative presentation of comprehensive child law regimes abroad
• The policy framework on the rights of children in Ethiopia
• The legal framework on the rights of children in Ethiopia and issues of harmonization
• Ethiopia's policy, legal and institutional structures on the rights of children: conclusions and recommendations
• Child rights and Ethiopia's federal politic: Additional challenges relating to jurisdictional issues in comprehensive law and legislature reform
• The way forward: Feasibility of the enactment of a comprehensive child law in Ethiopia.

• General introduction
• Understanding gender
• Moving towards guaranteeing women's rights, global perspectives
• Women in Ethiopia
• Gender equality
• Gender and family law
• Violence against women
• Overview of some other specific human rights of women.

• Prefatory part
• Historical survey of the Derg regime and the infamous red terror
• The Ethiopian legal framework for the prosecution of crimes under international law
• The Ethiopian approach to reckon with Derg crimes : the road to the creation of the special public prosecutor's office
• Criminal accountability for the Derg crimes : prosecution of politicide
• Stocktaking of the red terror trials : is it an approach with emulating?
• Concluding remarks.

This book investigates the road map or the transitional justice mechanisms that theEthiopian government chose to confront the gross human rights violations perpetratedunder the 17 years' rule of the Derg, the dictatorial regime that controlled state powerfrom 1974 to 1991. Furthermore, the author extensively examines the prosecution ofpoliticide or genocide against political groups in Ethiopia. Dealing with the violent conflict, massacres, repressions and other mass atrocities ofthe past is necessary, not for its own sake, but to clear the way for a new beginning.In other words, ignoring gross human rights violations and attempting to close thechapter on an oppressive dictatorial past by choosing to let bygones be bygones, is nolonger a viable option when starting on the road to a democratic future. For unaddressedatrocities and a sense of injustice would not only continue to haunt a nation butcould also ignite similar conflicts in the future. So the question is what choices are available to the newly installed government whenconfronting the evils of the past. There are a wide array of transitional mechanismsto choose from, but there is no "one size fits all" mechanism. Of all the transitionaljustice mechanisms, namely truth commissions, lustration, amnesty, prosecution, and reparation, the Ethiopian government chose prosecution as the main means fordealing with the horrendous crimes committed by the Derg regime. One of the formidable challenges for transitioning states in dealing with the crimes offormer regimes is an inadequate legal framework by which to criminalize and punishegregious human rights violations. With the aim of examining whether or not Ethiopiahas confronted this challenge, the book assesses Ethiopia's legal framework regardingboth crimes under international law and individual criminal responsibility. This book will be of great relevance to academics and practitioners in the areas ofgenocide studies, international criminal law and transitional justice. Students in thefields of international criminal law, transitional justice and human rights will alsofind relevant information on the national prosecution of politicide in particular andthe question of confronting the past in general. Marshet Tadesse Tessema is Assistant Professor of the Law School, College of Law andGovernance at Jimma University in Ethiopia, and Postdoctoral Fellow of the SouthAfrican-German Centre, University of the Western Cape in South Africa.
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