1948
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
The binding duty to prevent and punish the gravest of crimes — Ethiopia was among the first states in the world to ratify it, in 1949.
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Documentation, research and advocacy for civilian protection in Ethiopia's Amhara region.
Reports, investigations and organisations documenting the ongoing crisis in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Primary sources for journalists, researchers and advocates.
Founding text
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”
The normative foundation this entire record rests on. The full text — preamble and thirty articles — is published here in full.
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The binding duty to prevent and punish the gravest of crimes — Ethiopia was among the first states in the world to ratify it, in 1949.
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The binding guarantee of civil and political rights, to which Ethiopia is a state party.
Read the full text →Three sources that, between them, establish what is happening, prove it, and keep the record current.
Audiovisual material that gives a face and a voice to what the institutional record above documents. We list it separately, and deliberately: these works accompany the primary sources — they do not replace them.
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