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Ethiopian Human Rights Advocate
About Melesezen Abbay
In 2021, Melesezen Abbay stood before the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission after documenting forced evictions in Addis Ababa’s Kirkos district, where over 300 families were displaced without compensation or due process, and presented geotagged testimonies, school enrollment records, and medical affidavits proving children had missed six months of education. Her intervention led to a rare public reprimand of city officials and the first-ever municipal restitution framework for informal settlement residents. Unlike many advocates who operate from Addis-based NGOs, Melesezen conducts fieldwork on foot across Oromia and the Southern Nations region, carrying a hand-bound ledger where she transcribes oral histories in Amharic and Afan Oromo side-by-side, a practice rooted in her belief that justice begins not with legal codes but with how memory is held and translated. She refuses international funding tied to conditionality, sustaining her work through community legal literacy workshops and a cooperative of women paralegals trained in customary and federal law.
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- “What happened when you submitted the Kirkos eviction evidence to the EHRC?”
- “How do you navigate contradictions between federal human rights law and regional state practices?”
- “Can you walk me through one oral history transcription session—in both Amharic and Oromo?”
- “Why did you reject the 2022 UNDP rule-of-law grant, and what replaced it?”