Protection Of Internal Minorities In Ethiopia Assessing The Potential Of Non-territorial Autonomy Arrangements

The international practice has revealed that individuals belonging to different minorities arernoften not able to enjoy their human rights because of the discrimination they face. The samernholds true in Ethiopia since the long centralist history triggered ethnic inequalities.rnFortunately, following the system change, the FDRE Constitution was adopted and declaredrnethnic federalism, inter alia, to guarantee the rights of ethnic minorities. The thesis, however,rnargues that the existing ethnic-based territorial autonomy has again failed to accommodaterninternal minorities. Therefore, it first scrutinizes the inadequacy of protection given to theserngroups of people under the existing legal and institutional frameworks. Then, it recommendsrntwo constitutional solutions. First, the existing ethnic-based territorial autonomy federalrnsystem has to be kept intact with giving sufficient protection for the indigenous minorities.rnSecond, non-territorial autonomy as a complementary constitutional arrangement has to bernadopted to protect non-indigenous minorities.

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