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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ethiopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Apart from Eritrea to the north, Ethiopia is bordered by Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Djibouti to the northeast, and Somalia to the east.
Ethiopia is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered on the north and northeast by Eritrea, on the east by Djibouti and Somalia, on the south by Kenya, and on the west and southwest by Sudan.
Ethiopia was a charter member of the United Nations and took part in UN operations in Korea in 1951 and the Congo in 1960.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ethiopia   (1707 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tigrayan People's Liberation Front   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Politics of Ethiopia takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary republic, whereby the [[Prime Minister is the head of government.
List of heads of government of Ethiopia (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) Affiliations See also Ethiopia Rulers and Heads of State of Ethiopia List of Presidents of Ethiopia Lists of office-holders...
A political party is an organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tigrayan-People%27s-Liberation-Front   (641 words)

  
 UNHCR - Ethiopia: Update to ETH15911.E of 30 November 1993 on the Gurage tribe including their location, language, and ...
The Gurage remained politically quiescent throughout this tumultous period, save for the participation of some youth in the radical student movement that opposed the regime in its early years.
The GPDF is not mentioned among the political parties of Ethiopia listed on the Websie of the Ethiopian Embassy in London (Ethiopian Embassy, n.d).
Nonetheless, two Gurage Political parties: the Gurage People's Revolutionary Movement (GPRM), and the Gurage Zone Nationalities Democratic Movement are listed among the seventy two (72) political parties that exist in Ethiopia (ibid., 129).
www.unhcr.org /home/RSDCOI/3df4be2f14.html   (520 words)

  
  List of political parties in Ethiopia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ethiopia is a one party dominant state in the form that a coalition, the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front dominates politics.
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Ethiopia   (227 words)

  
 Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Ethiopia's main opposition leader was freed from house arrest on Tuesday after the country's main political parties agreed to work together for peace after 10 days of political unrest left at least 37 people dead.
But tensions still remain and political parties are expected to meet Wednesday to continue discussions on improving relations amid allegations of killings and mass arrests of opposition supporters.
Ethiopia's ruling party, which has pledged itself to democratic reform but shown authoritarian tendencies, claimed victory in last month's elections based on provisional results.
www.cbc.ca /cp/world/050614/w061418.html   (431 words)

  
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Parties inside the country should start a serious heart to heart talk with exile political groups to create a complete union so that a victory of one could be a victory of all.
Political parties within the country must feel paranoid to think that their misfortune is not all the making of sinister exile groups.
Politics is a dynamic process and growing in to all-inclusive political party must not be seen as admitting defeat.
www.ethiopiafirst.com /news2004/Jan/What_UEDF_Members_Need.html   (2220 words)

  
 Ethiopia
Opposition political parties reported that their supporters were the targets of frequent and systematic violence by ruling party supporters during the year, often after leaving meetings (see Sections 1.c.
Opposition parties accused the NEB of being an instrument of the ruling party and for failing to take meaningful action upon being informed of electoral irregularities, including ballot stuffing, vote count fraud, bribery, killings, beatings, and widespread intimidation and harassment by ruling party supporters during the 2001 and 2000 elections.
Opposition parties, such as the AEUP and the KPDU, reported that local government officials closed some of their branch offices in contravention of authorization from regional officials and the NEB for those offices to be allowed to remain open.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27727.htm   (18140 words)

  
 Governments on the WWW: Political Parties
Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ) [Socialdemocratic Party of Austria]
Srpska Stranka Republike Srpske [Serbian Party of the Serbian Republic]
Hrvatska Seljacka Stranka Bosne i Hercegovine (HSS BiH) [Croatian Peasants Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/parties.html   (2433 words)

  
 Ethiopia - Economic analysis of government's policies, investment climate and political risk.
Ethiopia is one of the world's poorest and most indebted countries in the world, which makes it particularly vulnerable to natural disaster such as drought.
Approximately 60 percent of Ethiopia's land surface is classified as arid and semi-arid, the remaining 40 percent being sub-humid and humid and thus of high agricultural potential.
Ethiopia is the poorest country in Africa and it is among poorest in the world.
www.mkeever.com /ethiopia.html   (3025 words)

  
 Sudan: Human Rights and Political Inclusion Must Be Part of Sudan Peace Agreement (A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper, ...
Only when these political parties, civic associations, and armed groups are able to participate in political debate, lobby officials, form political parties, air their views in the press and on radio, and campaign on behalf of peaceful change will all Sudanese be convinced that there is a place for them in the new political landscape.
The parties to the peace talks also agreed to incorporate some political forces not from their respective parties in the post-peace executive and legislative branches of the federal and the southern regional governments.
The ruling party has engaged in a charade of extending "rights" to some political parties and maintaining the clampdown on others, but no party is able, under the current set of very restrictive laws, to mount a challenge to the National Congress.
hrw.org /backgrounder/africa/sudan091703-bck.htm   (1684 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Extra
What this political objective might be, or whether it is worthwhile--these are all secondary considerations; but surely people do not commit such acts unless they are trying to achieve some kind of recognizably political purpose.
The protest for him was not politics but theater; and the significance of his role lay not in the political ends his actions might achieve, but rather in their symbolic value as ritual.
As the purpose of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia was to prove to the Italians themselves that they were conquerors, so the purpose of 9-11 was not to create terror in the minds of the American people but to prove to the Arabs that Islamic purity, as interpreted by radical Islam, could triumph.
www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=110002122   (7003 words)

  
 Ethiopia
Opposition political parties reported that during the year their supporters were targets of frequent and systematic violence by ruling party supporters, often after leaving meetings (see sections 1.c., 1.d., and 3).
Opposition parties accused the NEB of being an instrument of the ruling party and of failing to act when informed of electoral irregularities, including ballot stuffing, vote count fraud, bribery, killings, beatings, and widespread intimidation and harassment by ruling party supporters during the national elections.
Ethiopia was a source country for men, women, and children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61569.htm   (15199 words)

  
 ETHIOPIA -- POLITICAL PARTIES
According to Ethiopia's proclamation for party registration issued in 1993, to receive a license a national party should have 1,500 founding members with 40 percent of them expected to be regular residents of a region and the rest at least permanently living in four regions.
The SEPDC was formed on March 11, 1992 as a coalition of ten political organizations that had seats in the Council of Representatives (transitional parliament) and representing five regions (7, 8, 9, 10 and 11) formed by proclamation n°7/1984 (1992).
The ARDUF was opposed to the division of the Afar region between Eritrea and Ethiopia and called for the reunification and autonomy of Afar territory.
www.angelfire.com /ak/sellassie/politics/parties.html   (3529 words)

  
 Representative Christopher H. Smith - (NJ04) - Smith Criticizes Ethiopian Government's Violent Response to Protesters
Partial results showed that the opposition parties won nearly 200 seats in the 547-seat lower house of Parliament and may have won far more.
Opposition party members have refused to take their seats in Parliament because of a change in legislative procedure that places the minority party at an extreme disadvantage.
The political opposition and the international community have protested the change, which requires a party to control 51% of the seats in order to place any item on the Parliament’s agenda.
www.house.gov /apps/list/press/nj04_smith/prEthiopiaviolence.html   (592 words)

  
 Ethiopia - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In November Ethiopia accepted in principle the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission’s ruling that the border town of Badme was Eritrean territory according to colonial treaties, which it had previously rejected.
The mandate of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), administering a buffer-zone along the border, was extended.
There were reports of unfair and long-delayed political trials; torture and ill-treatment of prisoners; and ”.
web.amnesty.org /report2005/eth-summary-eng   (1582 words)

  
 Country Information, a world portal on countries, politics and governments
In political geography and international politics a country is a geographical territory.
It is used casually in the sense of both the concept of nation (a cultural entity; see below) and state (a political entity).
Strict definitions tend to place it as meaning only the state [1], though general use is wider than this [2].
www.countryiworld.com   (192 words)

  
 ETHIOPIA
Political detainees in the third group consist of members of the EPRDF or its regional allies purged during recurrent campaigns of appraisals of political loyalty and effectiveness.
As for the other three categories of political detainees imprisoned since 1991, they indicate the ongoing failure to resolve conflicts between the ruling party and its erstwhile allies in the armed struggle, as well as the government's inclination to limit the democratic space and hinder the development of civil society.
As a rule, in its treatment of political detainees, the government has routinely flouted the international instruments to which Ethiopia is party, as well as its own constitutional provisions for the protection of the rights of arrested, accused, and detained persons.
www.hrw.org /reports/1997/ethiopia/Ethio97d-03.htm   (6790 words)

  
 Website of Congressman Chris Van Hollen :: Speech :: Statement of the Members of the House Ethiopia Caucus Regarding ...
Washington, D.C. We are extremely alarmed and saddened by the outbreak of violence in Addis Ababa, the death of innocent Ethiopians, and the recent arrests of opposition party leaders.
We urge Ethiopia’s government to show restraint in dealing with civilians as it seeks to maintain law and order, and we call upon all parties to address problems through peaceful means, dialogue and negotiation based on the country’s constitution and laws.
The use of violence, or attempts to incite violence, are strongly condemned and we urge all concerned to maintain calm, exercise maximum restraint, and tone down the irresponsible rhetoric that leads to needless suffering and impedes Ethiopia’s path to democracy.
www.house.gov /apps/list/speech/md08_vanhollen/Ethiopian_Violence.html   (347 words)

  
 Political Affairs Magazine - ETHIOPIA: Gov't urged to end crackdown on the opposition
Opposition parties have accused the ruling party of rigging the election and said the process was marred by fraud, intimidation and violence.
Lawmakers from the CUD have refused to take up their 109 seats in the 547-seat lower house in protest of rules passed by the previous parliament that they maintain were intended to limit their powers.
The new rules stipulate that parties must hold a minimum of 51 percent of parliamentary seats in order to propose motions and present an agenda.
www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/2164/1   (604 words)

  
 9. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, New York, 10 December 1984   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Concerning to this matter, it declares that the settlement of disputes between the States Parties, such disputes may be referred to arbitration or to the International Court of Justice with the consent of all the Parties concerned and not by one of the Parties.
The Government of Sweden is of the view that as regards the latter, this general reservation, which does not clearly specify the provisions of the Convention to which it applies and the extent of the derogation therefrom, raises doubts as to the commitment of Qatar to the object and purpose of the Convention.
It is in the common interest of States that treaties to which they have chosen to become parties are respected as to their object and purpose, by all parties, and that States are prepared to undertake any legislative changes necessary to comply with their obligations under the treaties.
www.ohchr.org /english/countries/ratification/9.htm   (7160 words)

  
 Ethiopia Needs a New Political Arrangement
In that constitution, TPLF dissolved political power to regional states and allowed each regional state to be governed by someone (regime’s puppet official) from that region.
Article 39 grants citizens in each regional state of Ethiopia the exclusive rights to elect their own representatives to local assemblies and national parliament, the rights to govern their region, control their resources and teach their own languages in their respective schools in their regional states (see reference 4).
The current Ethiopia state is a mess and we should not continue to pretend like CUD and other unionists continue to do that can be cleared up and reformed.
www.sidamaconcern.com /news2006/ethiopia_needs_a_new_political.htm   (1934 words)

  
 Political parties, and political groups worldwide
List of political and non-profit organisations on the Internet, maintained by UC-Berkeley's Centre for Community Economic Research
America's Open Debates Foundation is a national foundation committed to networking existing "free election" organizations, every legitimate national party, ballot access and election reform movements into one cooperative, unified and powerful voice.
Third Parties '96 is a movement to build a new mainstream political party
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /parties.htm   (1218 words)

  
 Wiki for List of political parties in Malawi not found.Help.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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 Ethiopia
the (communist) Party of the Workers of Ethiopia (COPWE)
Official style: Moa Anbesa ze Emnegede Yehuda, N.N., Seyume Egziebher, Neguse/Negeste Negest za Ityopya ("Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, N.N., Elect of God, King/Queen of Kings of Ethiopia").
9 May 1936 Annexation of Ethiopia by Italy.
www.worldstatesmen.org /Ethiopia.html   (1796 words)

  
 Political Parties
Conservative Party or PSC [Ciro RAMIREZ Anzon]; Liberal Party or PL [Luis Guillermo VELEZ]; Patriotic Union or UP is a legal political party formed by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC and Colombian Communist Party or PCC [Jaime CAICEDO]; 19 of April Movement or M-19 [Antonio NAVARRO Wolff]
Fiji Labor Party or FLP [Mahendra CHAUDHRY]; Fijian Nationalist Federation Party or NFP [Singh RAKKA]; Fijian Political Party or SVT (primarily Fijian) [Maj. Gen.
political party activity is organized along largely sectarian lines; numerous political groupings exist, consisting of individual political figures and followers motivated by religious, clan, and economic considerations
countryprofile.tripod.com /parties.html   (2726 words)

  
 Ethiopia - Content Development
Abstract : The Ethiopian National Congress is a coalition of Ethiopian political parties and groups inside and outside Ethiopia.
A list of professional associations and research grants by the Commission is available.
It is a school for missionaries' children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
www.uneca.org /aisi/nici/country_profiles/ethiopia/ethiocond.htm   (1360 words)

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