{"id":1410818,"date":"2022-03-30T15:45:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T19:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410818"},"modified":"2022-03-30T15:45:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T19:45:54","slug":"ethiopia-pushes-to-block-u-n-funding-for-abuse-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ethiopia-pushes-to-block-u-n-funding-for-abuse-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia pushes to block U.N. funding for abuse inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fethiopia-pushes-to-block-u-n-funding-for-abuse-inquiry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410818&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>FILE PHOTO: Miners pray the Asr prayer at the Afdera salt mine on the outskirts of Afdera town, Afar region, Ethiopia, February 23, 2022. REUTERS\/Tiksa Negeri<\/div>\n<p>March 30, 2022<\/p>\n<p>By Michelle Nichols<\/p>\n<p>UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) \u2013     A United Nations General Assembly budget committee is due to vote Thursday on an Ethiopian push to block funding for an independent investigation into abuses in the country\u2019s conflict, diplomats said. <\/p>\n<p>The U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva established the inquiry in December to collect evidence and identify those responsible for abuses with a view to future prosecutions. Ethiopia vowed not to cooperate, describing the move \u2013 pushed by the Western states \u2013 as \u201cpolitically motivated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 193-member U.N. General Assembly in New York has to approve funding for the investigation by a three-member panel of experts. The scheduled vote on Thursday is on an Ethiopian-drafted resolution to deny funding.<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch urged U.N. member states to reject the Ethiopian move. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernments concerned about the many victims of atrocities and other crimes in Ethiopia should get the commission up and running, fully funded, as soon as possible,\u201d said Louis Charbonneau, Human Rights Watch U.N. director, and Lucy McKernan, Human Rights Watch deputy U.N. director in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>War broke out 16 months ago between Ethiopia\u2019s federal troops and forces loyal to the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the Tigray region. Fighting spread last year from Tigray into the neighboring Amhara and Afar regions before the rebellious Tigray forces were pushed back.<\/p>\n<p>In November a joint investigation by the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and the U.N rights office found that all sides in Tigray\u2019s conflict had committed violations that may amount to war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia\u2019s U.N. ambassador, Taye Atske Selassie Amde, told Reuters on Wednesday that the move by the Human Rights Council to establish the new inquiry \u201ccompletely undermined\u201d the joint investigation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Human Rights Council is misused to advance a biased political agenda of others who believe that African national Human Rights organizations are not capable to investigate human rights violations and make accountability violators,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Leslie Adler)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Miners pray the Asr prayer at the Afdera salt mine on the outskirts of Afdera town, Afar region, Ethiopia, February 23, 2022. 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