Ethiopia: Human Rights

(asked on 21st January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the gov.uk News story, The conflict is causing untold suffering and must end - Minister for Africa's statement following visit to Ethiopia, published on 20 January 2022, what steps she is taking to ensure that UK funding for the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (a) will be used to guarantee that institution’s independence from the Ethiopian Government and (b) is used to support projects and activities that are free from bias.


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Vicky Ford Portrait
Vicky Ford
This question was answered on 26th January 2022

On 21 January I announced £14.5 million of new funding to the crisis in Ethiopia of which £4.5 million is for peacebuilding and human rights. Part of this funding will go towards building the capacity of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Specifically, it will be provided to a multi-donor funded project run by the Danish Institute for Human Rights and focussed on the broad institutional development of the EHRC. The independence of the Commission and its work is part of the Commission's vision and principles, to which this project is aligned.

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