International human rights law defines certain fundamental freedoms which individuals should enjoy and proscribes a number of actions by the State or its agents, such as torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. Its major defect is a lack of effective procedures by which individuals can file complaints and through which states can be condemned for violations. The [European] Convention...

Since the coming of PM Abiy Ahmed into power in 2018, mob violence has become a recurring problem Ethiopia. Fundamental rights, which are recognized under international human rights instruments and FDRE Constitution, have been frequently abused by non-state actor violence. Ethiopia obligations to prevent/promote/protect remedy violations individuals. However, loss life destruction property, amo...

The Sudanese soldiers and the Janjawid invaded her village. When she tried to escape, they gang-raped her. At that time, she was eight months pregnant and described giving birth to a dead baby afterward and being very sick. She could not make it with her group to the border to flee to Chad so she had to walk alone. Once she got to Chad, she was raped by a Chadian soldier outside of the camp and...