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Third Committee Delegates Highlight Systemic Racism, Killings of People of African Descent, Ongoing Legacies of Colonialism, Slavery, in Rights Debate

November 1, 2022November 2, 2022User2

Independent Expert Underscores Modern Slavery in Physical and Online Slave Markets, Organ Harvesting Children of African descent are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system, experts told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today, as delegates engaged in a series of interactive dialogues on the link between systemic racism and the global ecological crisis, […]

Permanent Mission Dismisses Exaggerated Statement of Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights

October 19, 2022October 20, 2022User2

Ethiopia’s Permanent Mission to Geneva has dismissed the exaggerated allegation of Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights that the death toll of civilians in the recent conflict is staggering. In its press release, the permanent mission stated that it has come across a statement released by the Office of the High Commissioner for […]

Over 1600 Cyber Attacks Thwarted in First Quarter of Ethiopian Fiscal Year

October 18, 2022October 19, 2022User2

The Information Network Security Administration (INSA) revealed that it has thwarted more than 1,600 cyber attacks on different institutions in the first quarter of the 2015 Ethiopian fiscal year. INSA Intrusion Analysis Team Leader, Abel Temesgen told ENA that financial institutions were the major targets of the attacks, followed by ministries and the education sector. […]

UN Rights Chief: Fighting in Tigray Taking Toll on Civilians

October 18, 2022October 19, 2022User2

GENEVA — The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Volker Turk, says the escalating hostilities in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region are taking a devastating toll on the civilian population and must stop. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva. U.N. rights chief Volker Turk is alarmed at the latest surge of airstrikes launched on the Tigray […]

INSA Urges Institutions to Modernize Working Systems to Avert Rising Cyber-attacks

October 17, 2022October 18, 2022User2

The Information Network Security Administration (INSA) urged institutions in Ethiopia to modernize technologies and systems to enhance cyber security and protect the nation from increasing cyber-attacks. Indicating the rise of cyber-attack incidents in different institutions in Ethiopia in the past few years, INSA stated that it has recorded 8,845 cyber-attacks at the end of the […]

Renew Mandate of Int’l Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia Example of Humanitarian Imperialism

October 14, 2022October 15, 2022User2

The EU-sponsored resolution to renew the mandate of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) is an example of humanitarian imperialism, which refers to the weaponization of human rights to advance political goals, the American Political Analyst Korybko said. It is to be recalled that the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted […]