'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
Tourism industry could not feel happier–the number of people going on holiday is on constant rise. It reached 940 million people in one year only–2010. While hailing this fact as a source of employment amidst global financial crisis, little mention is made about the extremely precarious, abusive work conditions of such seasonal employment.
Just see what the 34 industrialised, rich countries group–the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says.
Ethiopia’s new leadership should commit to fundamental human rights reforms in the wake of the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Human Rights Watch said*. Meles’s death was announced by the Ethiopian state media on August 21, 2012.
**Meles Zenawi – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012.
Ethiopia’s international partners should call on the government to support fundamental rights and freedoms in the country and a prompt rollback of repressive laws, Human Rights Watch (HRW) added.
“Ethiopia’s government should commit to respect for human rights and core rights reforms in the coming days and weeks,” said Leslie Lefkow, deputy Africa director at HRW. “The country’s new leadership should reassure Ethiopians by building on Meles’s positive legacy while reversing his government’s most pernicious policies.”
Meles had been in power since 1991, when the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) lead a coalition of armed opposition groups in overturning the rule of Mengistu Haile Mariam.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 