The Role of Human Rights Commission in the Protection of the Rights of Children- A Case of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission
| dc.contributor.advisor | Temesgen, Berhanu (Dr.) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Abraha, Selam | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-01T11:52:12Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T09:41:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-02-01T11:52:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T09:41:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study seeks to critically assess the practices of EHRC vis-à-vis the protection mandate of the ERHC on child rights issues in Ethiopia. The paper examines the laws and practices so that to identify and highlight the major areas of work, function and challenges of the EHRC in terms of delivering its mandate on protection of child rights. The main objective of the study is to explore the specific mandates of the EHRC in matters of child right violation and the challenges and prospects EHRC faces in delivering its protection mandate on child right issues. This study has a specific objective by explicitly focusing on exploring the works of the women and children commission of the EHRC thereby assessing its protection mandate to rights of children in Ethiopia, review the process of undertaking investigative missions and other procedural matters in delivering their protection mandate of child rights violation. The research applied an analysis and review of literatures as a background tool and utilized to gather data from secondary sources. This method was supplemented with in-depth interviews to collect primary data on the practice. In analyzing the works of the EHRC on issues related to child rights protection, the study looked into the legal and procedural frameworks as well as the institutional set up and practices in delivering its mandate. The study found that, despite its relatively broad mandate and efforts to achieve its objective, EHRC faced numerous challenges in terms of its institutional set-up, practical mandate and administrative processes. This includes working on child rights issues as a cross cutting issue not a stand-alone right. This has also impacted in the investigative missions, finding and reporting of rights violations produced by the EHRC. In addition, after the reform of the EHRC in 2018, there were substantial changes in the set-up of the institution, however, more works needs to be done in aligning the different working of the commission in a manner that is child friendly and put at heart the best interest of the child. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/29835 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | A.A.U | en_US |
| dc.subject | Child Rights, Ethiopia Human Rights Commission (EHRC), National Human Rights Institutes (NHRIs), Paris Principles | en_US |
| dc.title | The Role of Human Rights Commission in the Protection of the Rights of Children- A Case of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |