HRW: Transparency Group Should Reject Ethiopia's Membership Bid

Human Rights Watch said Ethiopia should not be allowed to join a major global initiative that encourages governments to better manage natural resource revenues. The human rights group said Friday Ethiopia should be banned from becoming a member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative - EITI. HRW's senior business and human rights researcher, Lisa Misol, said Ethiopia's "harsh repression" of independent voices is "utterly incompatible" with the...

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