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  • Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai’s Testimony to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission – March 21, 2017
  • The Assembly and Association Briefing, Vol. 3, No. 7 (Issue 24) – October-November 2016
    Nov. 14, 2016
  • UN rights experts urge U.S. court to hear activist’s claims in surveillance case against Ethiopia
    Nov. 3, 2016
  • Ethiopia: UN experts call for international commission to help investigate systematic violence against protesters
    Oct. 10, 2016
  • The Assembly and Association Briefing, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Issue 18) – January 2016
    Feb. 1, 2016
  • UN experts urge Ethiopia to halt violent crackdown on Oromia protesters, ensure accountability for abuses
    Jan. 21, 2016
  • UNSR releases ‘sectoral equity’ country background reports, comparing laws on businesses and CSOs in 34 countries
    Nov. 26, 2015
  • The Assembly and Association Briefing, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Issue 12) – April-May 2015
    May 6, 2015
  • Continued detention of Ethiopian journalists unacceptable – UN human rights experts
    April 24, 2015
  • The Assembly and Association Briefing, Vol. 1, Issue 8 (October-November 2014)
    Nov. 5, 2014
  • UN experts urge Ethiopia to stop using anti-terrorism legislation to curb human rights
    Sept. 18, 2014
  • Kiai writes for openGlobalRights – ‘In Kenya, averting a move to strangle civil society with the financial noose’
    Dec. 18, 2013
  • Kiai tells Malawi conference that civil society is “under attack” in Africa
    Nov. 25, 2013
  • Ethiopia: UN experts disturbed at persistent misuse of terrorism law to curb freedom of expression
    Feb. 2, 2012

    • Reports

  • Ethiopia Communications: May 1, 2011 to February 28, 2017
    Feb. 28, 2016
  • The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the workplace
    Oct. 3, 2016
  • 2015: The year in assembly & association rights
    Jan. 14, 2016
  • Comparing States’ treatment of businesses and associations worldwide
    Sept. 16, 2015
  • 2014: The year in assembly & association rights
    Jan. 9, 2015
  • Threats against groups most at risk when exercising assembly and association rights
    May 13, 2014
  • The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of elections
    Sept. 21, 2013
  • Civil Society’s Right to seek, receive and use resources – human, material and financial
    April 24, 2013
  • Best practices in promoting the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
    May 21, 2012
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