{"id":278029,"date":"2019-06-01T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiL2h0dHBzOi8vYWxsYWZyaWNhLmNvbS9zdG9yaWVzLzIwMTkwNjA0MDQzMS5odG1s0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:18:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:18:45","slug":"an-allafrica-essay-said-ethiopian-womens-and-girls-rights-still-hung-in-the-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278029","title":{"rendered":"An AllAfrica essay said Ethiopian women\u2019s and girls\u2019 rights still hung in the balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 AllAfrica published an opinion piece framed around the death of Addis Ababa resident Meaza Kassa Gebremedhin, a single mother of three, and used her story to argue that the rights and welfare of Ethiopian women and girls still hung in the balance.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-501854\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Addis-Ababa-forced-eviction.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"An AllAfrica essay said Ethiopian women\u2019s and girls\u2019 rights still hung in the balance\" \/>\n<p>Gender essays from that season mixed personal loss with structural complaints about health care, safety, and social support after years of political change that had not yet rewritten household burdens.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as gender archive, the AllAfrica essay dates public argument about women\u2019s welfare in Ethiopia in mid-2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201906040431.html\">AllAfrica<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia: Forgetting to Forget &#8211; the Rights and Welfare of Ethiopian Women and Girls Hangs in the Balance&nbsp;&nbsp;AllAfrica.comOpinion &#8211; Meaza Kassa Gebremedhin, a resident of Addis Ababa and a single mother of three passed away on March 24, 2019. S&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":501854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Addis-Ababa-forced-eviction.jpg?fit=966%2C607&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1akl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755000,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278029\/revisions\/755000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}