The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission’s Power of Investigation of Human Rights Violations and Its Application during State of Emergencies
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2019-12
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
This study assessed the legal and practical challenges the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission
has faced in the application of its mandate of investigation of human rights violation during state
of emergency. By employing a qualitative approach that used both primary and secondary data,
the research examined the international and national legal frameworks pertaining to the EHRC
power of investigation of human rights violations during SOE; EHRC‟s achievement, and
challenges in the investigation of human right violations during the last SOEs. The study‟s key
finding is that, EHRC has the mandate to investigate human rights violations, the Commission
hardly exercised its mandate on any of the appalling human right violations committed during
the last SOEsand has not performed at expected standard. Nonetheless, the study also found that
lack of independence was the central problem for EHRC.