Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Ethiopian authorities for shutting down two prominent human rights organizations in recent weeks, deepening an ongoing crackdown against civil society, in a ...

Ethiopia's government has intensified its crackdown on civil society by suspending multiple human rights organisations, including the country's oldest watchdog group, Human Rights Watch has warned.

Ethiopia is waging an "escalating crackdown" on civil society, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday, denouncing the suspension of two independent human rights groups in recent weeks.

Human Rights Watch found that the government's allegations ... As one of the few human rights entities operating in Ethiopia, the commission, as well as the Office of the United Nations High ...

Addis Abeba — In mid-January 2025, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published its overview of the human rights situation in Ethiopia for 2024. The report stated that human rights continue to be violated, ...

Today marks the publication of Human Rights Watch’s 35th annual World Report ... Not so many other atrocity-ridden conflicts elsewhere, like in Ethiopia, Myanmar, and Sudan.

The conflicts in Sudan and Ethiopia feature prominently in a Human Rights Watch report released Thursday. The report says that in Sudan, the war between the armed forces and the rebel Rapid ...

African CSOs were encouraged by the progressive legal reforms in Ethiopia with the advent of the new leadership in 2020, including adopting a progressive civil society legislation which lifted ...

Ethiopian authorities have shut down two more prominent human rights organizations in recent weeks as part of their escalating crackdown against civil society, Human Rights Watch said today. The ...