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- Girls Married At 10 And Pregnant at 12.
Sky News, 15 May 2008.
Although child marriages are illegal in Ethiopia traditions die hard in the remote northern region of Amhara.
- Atrocities Alleged in Eastern Ethiopia.
The New York Times, 29 November 2007.
In the desert stretches of eastern Ethiopia, locals accuse soldiers fighting an insurgency of burning villages to the ground, committing gang rape and killing people ''like goats.''
- Female circumcision declines in southern region.
IRIN News, 31 July 2007.
The number of girls and women who undergo female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has declined in Ethiopia's Southern Regional State, and could be reduced further if stronger penalties were enforced, an NGO leader said.
- New strategy to tackle reproductive health issues.
IRIN, 12 April 2007.
Ethiopia has launched a national strategy on adolescent and reproductive health that aims to tackle the problems of early marriages and pregnancies, female circumcision, abduction and rape, and poor access to healthcare for 10- to 24-year-olds.
- Ethiopia calls for end of impunity of violence against women.
People’s Daily Online, 1 April 2007.
A recent incident of gratuitous violence against a young woman in Ethiopia may help the East African nation finally emerge from a centuries-old approval of wife and woman beating as a cultural practice.
- Collective Punishment - War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in the Ogaden area of Ethiopia’s Somali Region, Human Rights Watch, 2008
- Women’s Empowerment in Ethiopia: New Solutions to Ancient Problems. Bogalech Alemu & Mengistu Asnake, Pathfinder International, 2007
- Causes and Consequences of Early Marriage in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia, Pathfinder, 2006
- Creating Partnerships to Prevent Early Marriage in the Amhara Region, Pathfinder International, 2006.
- Violence against girls in Africa: a retrospective survey in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, Stavropoulos J., African Child Policy Forum, 2006
- WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence: Ethiopia, 2005
(also available in French and Spanish)
- Women of the World: Anglophone Africa Progress Report, Center for Reproductive Rights, 2001
- Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives: Anglophone Africa,
Center for Reproductive Rights, 1997
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