The State of Human Rights and Human Security in FDRE: A Comparative Case Study of Tigray and Afar Regional States

Assefa Le-ake Gebru
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Assefa Le-ake Gebru: PhD Student, ECNU-IGPP, Department of Politics, Shanghai, China; Assistant Professor, Political Science, Mekelle University, Ethiopia

Journal of Developing Societies, 2017, vol. 33, issue 3, 376-400

Abstract: This study is the result of a comparative case study about the protection of human right from the vintage point of the promotion of human security in Tigray and Afar National Regional States in Ethiopia. Despite the multifaceted differences between the two regions, the study shows how the universality of human rights and contextual nature of human security plays off and has comparatively examined the protection and promotion of human right and human security in the study area. In the academic literature, glossy either condemnation or admiration of the state of human right and human security in FDRE (Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia) is a common representation. However, this study contends that there are similarities and stark differences in the state of human rights and human security between the two regions. Still, human right violations remain to significantly hinder the promotion of human security. Besides political (threats and risks) insecurity, which is common to regions, livelihood insecurity in Afar, personal and physical insecurities in Tigray are major indicators of slack in human right protection.

Keywords: FDRE; human rights; human security; Afar; Tigray; Pastoral and Agrarian (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0169796X17717005

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