{"id":279154,"date":"2019-06-17T03:58:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T07:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMigwFodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbW5lc3R5Lm9yZy9lbi9sYXRlc3QvbmV3cy8yMDE5LzA2L2V0aGlvcGlhLWh1bWFuLXJpZ2h0cy1jb21taXNzaW9uLW11c3QtYmUtcmVmb3JtZWQtdG8tY29ycmVjdC1taXNjYXJyaWFnZS1vZi1qdXN0aWNlL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:16:20","slug":"amnesty-said-ethiopias-human-rights-commission-needed-deep-reform-to-serve-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279154","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty said Ethiopia\u2019s Human Rights Commission needed deep reform to serve victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 June 2019 Amnesty International said the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission must be reformed so it can help the country break with a repressive past and give victims real access to justice, after reviewing mainly 2016\u20132017 investigation reports.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-354823\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Amnesty said Ethiopia\u2019s Human Rights Commission needed deep reform to serve victims\" \/>\n<p>East Africa director Joan Nyanyuki said Amnesty found the commission operated outside standard human-rights methods, often blamed protesters or opposition actors instead of thoroughly examining security-force abuse, and was \u201cnot fit for purpose\u201d without change aligned with international standards.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as rights archive, the Amnesty briefing dates the June 2019 call to rebuild the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2019\/06\/ethiopia-human-rights-commission-must-be-reformed-to-correct-miscarriage-of-justice\/\">Amnesty International<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reform Ethiopia Human Rights Commission to correct miscarriage of justice&nbsp;&nbsp;Amnesty InternationalEthiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) must be reformed to enable it to contribute to the country making a break with its repressive past while &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":354823,"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-279154","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\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=1023%2C583&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aCu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279154","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=279154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755238,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279154\/revisions\/755238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}