Compensation of Victims of Human Rights Violations in Ethiopia in Light of International Human Rights Law: With Specific Reference to Addis Ababa and Oromia
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2010-01
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This paper aims to assess the Ethiopian law and practices of compensation of victims of
human rights violations in light of international human right laws. It is motivated by the
questions of whether and how the Ethiopian law and practice relate to the international
law and practice with regard to compensation of victims for human rights violation. It
appears at the beginning that the Ethiopian civil code provisions of extra-contractual
liability would cover human rights violations per se. However, questions of causation,
assessment, and enforcement-among others, triggers some other questions that the civil
code seems arguably fail to address. For instance, whether the questions of moral
damages and immunity of public official's responsibility are properly covered by the
Ethiopian law and practice in light of the international human rights law seem to be
debatable. This paper attempts to provide a general understanding of the Ethiopian law
and practice of compensation of human rights violation in light for the international
human rights law