Corporate Human Rights Abuse and the Accountability gap in Ethiopia
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2020
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AAU
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The issue of imposing human rights obligations on business organizations started to be at the
center of the international community agenda as a direct response to the high profile companies’
human rights violations in various corners of the world. National, regional, transnational and
international institutions are taking various initiatives to address this corporate human rights
abuse. Ethiopia has recently witnessed an increase in the number of domestic and transnational
corporations doing business in Ethiopia in diversified business sectors. Besides, Ethiopia has been
undertaking many development projects owned, financed or run by state-owned enterprises, and
the names of these domestic, foreign and state-owned enterprises have already been linked with
human rights abuses in Ethiopia. This thesis analyses whether Ethiopia has progressive policy and
legal frameworks to protect persons within its jurisdiction from corporate human rights abuses,
and that would enable it to ensure accountability for corporate human rights violations
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Corporate Human Rights