Ethiopia: HRW - Transparency Group Should Reject Ethiopias Membership Bid Reject Ethiopia Membership Bid-HRW Repression Contravenes Extractive Industries... 2013 Human Rights Reports - Ethiopia Land, Water Grabs Devastate Community Ethiopia: Repression Contravenes Extractive... Human Rights Rwanda: French Court Jails Genocidaire Governance Zimbabwe: Bad Policies Hindering Investment Argaw Ashine, OXFAM Residents speak about their suffering to Argaw Ashine, a journalist who visited their village to learn more about how the impact of climate change. Human Rights Watch said Ethiopia should not be allowed to join a major global initiative that encourages governments to better manage natural resource revenues. The human rights group said Friday Ethiopia should be banned from becoming a member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative - EITI. HRWs senior business and human rights researcher, Lisa Misol, said Ethiopias harsh repression of independent voices is utterly incompatible with the global effort to increase public oversight over government. EITI was founded to strengthen governance by increasing transparency over revenues from the oil, gas and mining industries. It is expected to make a decision on Ethiopias candidacy next week at a meeting in Oslo. Ethiopia attempted to join the transparency group in 2010, but was rejected. HRW said that membership bid was rebuffed because of concerns about what the rights group described as a draconian 2009 Ethiopian law, which is still in effect. HRW says the Proclamation on Charities and Society Law sharply limits the activities of independent groups. Supporters of Ethiopias EITI membership want the groups board to overturn its 2010 decision. HRWs Misol say that move would be absurd. She said if Ethiopia is granted membership, it would be a reward for Ethiopias effort to dismantle and silence civil society, providing a perverse incentive for other governments to do the same thing.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:27:26 +0000
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