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• 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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• History of land tenures in Ethiopia
• The current legal regimes of land governance in Ethiopia
• Tensions between de jure and de facto transfer of land rights in Ethiopia : informal land deals vs. the command of the statute laws
• Land reform policy and laws in Ethiopia : towards responsible land governance
• Land governance and human rights in Ethiopia
• Land governance and environmental protection in Ethiopia
• Land policy options.

Land rights in general and transferability of land rights in particular have been a mind boggling subject for intellectuals, donors, and politicians in Ethiopia. The question of land and the rights attached to it has been a cause for political turbulence and instability in the nation as well. It is important to study the challenges of land policies pursued by successive regimes and the historical evolutionary course leading to the current land policy. The deadlocks on land policy issues in Ethiopia might superficially seem to hinge on preferences of which land governance system or legal regime must the nation adopt or adapt. However, land issues in Ethiopia are more than economic factors or principles of efficiency and preference of ownership systems This book explores the limitations of the current land system in Ethiopia, by assessing and analyzing the laws and policies pertaining to land and transferability of rights over land. This includes an evaluation of existing legislation against the background of the history of land use in Ethiopia and ensuing political struggles.
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• Research background and methodology
• Land rights in Ethiopia
• Conceptualizing expropriation
• Expropriation procedure
• Public purpose
• Valuation and compensation during expropriation
• Conclusions and recommendations.

This thesis provides a new approach to the Ethiopian Land Law debate. The basic argument made in this thesis is that even if the Ethiopian Constitution provides and guarantees common ownership of land (together with the state) to the people, this right has not been fully realized whether in terms of land accessibility, enjoyability, and payment of fair compensation in the event of expropriation. Expropriation is an inherent power of the state to acquire land for public purpose activities. It is an important development tool in a country such as Ethiopia where expropriation remains the only method to acquire land. Furthermore, the two preconditions of payment of fair compensation and existence of public purpose justifications are not strictly followed in Ethiopia. The state remains the sole beneficiary of the process by capturing the full profit of land value, while paying inadequate compensation to those who cede their land by expropriation. Secondly, the broader public purpose power of the state in expropriating the land for unlimited activities puts the property owners under imminent risk of expropriation.
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• Introduction
• Designing local government for development and accommodation of diversity
• Local administration, development, and ethnicity in Ethiopia : historical perspective
• Decentralisation within Ethiopia's federation : constitutional basis and political motives
• Decentralisation and development in Ethiopia : local autonomy
• Decentralisation and development in Ethiopia : central supervision and inter-governmental co-operation
• Decentralisation and accommodation of intra-regional ethnic minorities in Ethiopia
• Conclusion.

This study inquires into whether the regional states are discharging their constitutional obligation of creating adequately empowered local government. It will attempt to do so by examining the decentralisation programme of four of the nine regional states of the Ethiopian federation.

• Introduction: The nexus between human rights and development from international and Ethiopian perspectives / Eva Brems, Christophe van der Beken and Solomon Abay Yimer
• The right to development in Africa / Koen de Feyter
• Human rights and development in Africa : assessing COMESA's experience / Adolphe Kilomba Sumaili
• The right to development in Ethiopia / Abdi Jibril Ali
• Ethiopia : development with or without freedom? / Assefa Fiseha Yeibyio
• Addressing the rights of indigenous peoples in the development of Ethiopia : a difficult compromise or a compelling necessity? / Dorothee Cambou
• Foreign direct investment in Ethiopian land : the good, the bad, and the lessons to be learned / Genny Ngende
• Market development and human rights protection : enforcing the UN guiding principles on business and human rights in Ethiopia / Solomon Abay Yimer
• The quest for effective remedies in the home states of transnational corporations : legal realism versus legal reality / Lieselot Verdonck
• The role of grants in local development efforts : case study on local autonomy and accountability from a human rights-based approach in Ethiopia / Solomon Negussie Abesha
• Environmental rights and investment in Ethiopia : a strenuous relationship / Zerihun Yimer Geleta
• Poverty and human rights : a European perspective / Laurens Lavrysen
• The Human Rights Commission of Ethiopia and issues of forced evictions : a case-oriented study of its practice / Mohammed Abdo Mohammed
• Gender equality, women's rights, and environmental sustainability : the case of climate change / Nicky Broeckhoven.

The papers by international and Ethiopian scholars included in Human Rights and Development: Legal Perspectives from and for Ethiopia focus on the interconnectedness between the protection of human rights and the achievement of development. The book adds to the international debate by providing a unique insight into the Ethiopian perspective on the nexus between rights and development and by discussing how this nexus manifests itself in the Ethiopian context. The comparative and international frameworks and examples constitute a valuable resource for the debate on human rights and development in Ethiopia, which is currently taking place in the context of the developmental state approach pursued by the Ethiopian government.
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• Analytischer Rahmen zum Rechtspluralismus in Äthiopen
• Entwicklung des De-jure-Status der Muslime und Scharia-Gerichtsbarkeit in Äthiopien
• Charakteristika der Scharia-Gerichtsbarkeit
• Islamisches Recht und staatliches Recht im Spannungsverhältnis.

• v. 1. Essays on Ethiopian constitutional development
• v. 2. Essays on Ethiopian legal development.