Human Rights and Development ― Legal Perspectives from and for Ethiopia

In 13 essays, law scholars from Ethiopia and Europe analyze the relationship between human rights and development in Ethiopia and how its government is pursuing a human rights-based approach to development. They discuss the legal status and components of the right to development; the role of regional organizations in fulfilling it, focusing on the objective of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa; the right to development in Article 43 of the Ethiopian constitution; the development state approach in Ethiopia and how it focuses on economic development to the detriment of civil rights and political freedoms; the attention given to the rights of indigenous peoples; the link between foreign aid, foreign direct investment, and development; and the impact of business operations on the protection of human rights in Ethiopia from the perspective of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. They also consider human rights violations by transnational corporations; the role of local governments in the achievement of development objectives; the relationship between investment and environmental rights; the principle of indivisibility of human rights and how civil and political rights can contribute to the reduction of poverty; the role of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission in investigating cases of forced eviction; and the connection between gender equality, women's rights, and climate change. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Eva Brems (LLM Harvard 1995, PhD KU Leuven 1999) is a Professor of Human Rights Law at Ghent University. Her research interests cover most areas of human rights law, in European and international law as well as in Belgian and comparative law.Christophe Van der Beken (PhD Ghent University 2006) is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Federalism and Legal Studies, Ethiopian Civil Service University. He is the author of several publications on federalism and constitutional law in Ethiopia.Solomon Abay Yimer (PhD University of Amsterdam 2011) is Assistant Professor of Financial and Economic Law at the Ethiopian Civil Service University and Addis Ababa University. He has published on issues of financial and economic law and interdisciplinary issues of human rights.