Compensation Of Victims Of Human Rights Violations In Ethiopia In Light Of International Human Rights Law With Specific Reference To Addis Ababa And Oromia

This paper aims to assess the Ethiopian law and practices of compensation of victims ofrnhuman rights violations in light of international human right laws. It is motivated by thernquestions of whether and how the Ethiopian law and practice relate to the internationalrnlaw and practice with regard to compensation of victims for human rights violation. Itrnappears at the beginning that the Ethiopian civil code provisions of extra-contractualrnliability would cover human rights violations per se. However, questions of causation,rnassessment, and enforcement-among others, triggers some other questions that the civilrncode seems arguably fail to address. For instance, whether the questions of moralrndamages and immunity of public official's responsibility are properly covered by thernEthiopian law and practice in light of the international human rights law seem to berndebatable. This paper attempts to provide a general understanding of the Ethiopian lawrnand practice of compensation of human rights violation in light for the internationalrnhuman rights law

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