Abduletif Kedir Idris

• LLM
• Lecurer at Addis Ababa University

Religious affiliation is almost universal in Ethiopia, which means that religions amass significant political capital but may also act as potential catalysts for conflict. After five decades of ostensibly secular politics—first under a socialist dictatorship and then driven by the EPRDF’s strict insistence that religion and state be separated; reli...

Environmental rights such as the right to a sound environment and rights of nature, while playing an increasingly important role in global environmental governance and protection, frequently do not correspond to articulations of fundamental experiences of injustice by communities particularly affected by serious environmental degradation caused by,...

Apart from being a fundamental right protected under various legal systems, access to justice is an intrinsic component of the concept of human rights and its operationalization. Judicial review of administrative actions is an element of the broader concept of access which has a significant role in the realization of administrative justice and addr...

The case reports from the legal aid centers run by Addis Ababa University, Center for Human Rights in Hawassa and Adama towns showed that bigamy is one of the causes of divorce and legal claims raised by women. A preliminary review revealed that most of these cases do not fulfill the legal definition of bigamy and hence none of the legal consequenc...

The central objective of this piece is thus to evaluate the constitutionality of using protection of religious sensibilities as a ground of limitation on the fundamental right of freedom of expression. Accordingly the questions to be raised here are: 1. Are there any rights entitling believers protection from insult to their religion feelings? 2. I...

Administrative action is steadily growing in Ethiopia, the major part of which is administrative rulemaking. It ranges from regulation of the major industries to the provision of basic commodities like sugar and edible oil. Modern states cannot effectively function without allowing the administrative agencies to have such roles, subject to the cave...