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LAWYER/JOURNALIST Saba is working in Asham Tv as a lawyer and program producer. She wants to bring more to the society and aims to participate in gender equality. She wants to bring more to the society and aims to participate in gender equality.
- Email: sabagebriel511@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251944721672
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SOCIAL JUSTICE/GENDER EQUALITY/WOMEN EMPOWERMENT Selam has had the privilege of researching, assessing, and influencing laws and policies that impact the lives of women’s and vulnerable groups in Africa. She also has rich experience in giving capacity building trainings and organizing events on issues of gender equality, women empowerment, harmful traditional practices, early marriage, human trafficking, protection, and fulfilment of human rights particularly for women, vulnerable groups and ethnic minorities. She has worked with government institutions, multilateral organizations, consulting firms, and NGOs, including Ethiopian Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Justice, Rural Land Administration, UNECA, The World Bank Group, USAID, DFID, GIZ, UN Women. She has MA in Gender Studies from Addis Ababa University, LLM in Criminal Justice from the University of Western Cape and LLB from Jimma University.
- Email: selgtsion@yahoo.com
- Mobile Number: 251911045035
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HUMAN RIGHTS/WOMEN RIGHTS/GENDER Tayechalem has PhD in Law from the University of Melbourne, Australia, LLM in Human Rights from and MA in Gender Studies from Addis Ababa University. Her major training is on human rights, women’s and girls’ rights and gender studies. She has served as assistant Professor, (part-time) at the center for Human Rights, in School of Law and Governance, Addis Ababa University. She was also a project manager for East and Southern Africa in strengthening CSOs for ending child marriages. She also worked in Plan International African Union Liaison Office, and was an independent Consultant on Human Rights and Gender Equality in Sub-Saharan Africa. She served as Project Coordinator in enhancing the voices of Civil Society to end Child Marriage (Coordinating 4 countries – Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi & Zimbabwe- in advocacy project). She also served as a lecturer at School of Law and Governance Studies, Addis Ababa University & Institute of Federalism and Legal Studies and Civil Service University. She has published research paper on Counting Absence in Political Equality, a Gender Analysis of the New Electoral Law of Ethiopia, co-author (Publication September 2020); Feminist Research Methodology Training Module, UN Women – Centre for Human Rights, Addis Ababa University (2019); The Regulation of Violence: Child Wives, Custom and the Formal Law in Ethiopia, (2019 publication pending – Frankfurt University/Frobenius Institute). Among her conference Presentations the following can be cited. Preliminary findings of the research Developing a Transformative Human Rights Approach towards the Practice of (girl) Early Marriage in Ethiopia on Human Rights in an Age of Ambiguity Conference hosted by Fordham, University at its Lincoln Center campus, NYC in June 2016. (Published online); Child-Friendly Methods for Engaging children as Research Participants, Research with and For Children.
- Email: tgirma@ughe.org
- Mobile Number: 250782519799
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HUMAN RIGHT/SOCIAL WORK/MEDIA/LECTURER Yemserach is Law School graduate from Addis Ababa University. She did her masters in two professions: Human Rights and Social Work. Her professional experience includes working as reporter in Addis Fortune newspaper, Gender Office Coordinator in College of Natural Sciences of Addis Ababa University, Assistant Project Officer in FAWE, Advocate Assistant in a law firm and Program Director in Women’s Strategic Development Center. Yemserach is an advocate for peace, girl’s education, women and youth leadership and empowerment, human rights, environment, and many social causes. She is also part time consultant, trainer, and researcher in different governmental and non-governmental organizations. Yemserach is currently working as a lecturer in School of Law and Federalism, Ethiopian Civil Service University.
- Email: yemserach.legesse@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251911890420
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HUMAN RIGHTS/GENDER SPECIALIST Zemdena Abebe leads Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) Network Ethiopia. As a Pan-Africanist womanist, she is committed to disrupting interlocking oppressive systems through her expertise in intersectional feminism, pacifist activism work, research, writing, multimedia -storytelling, community organizing, movement building, collective care praxis and transformational leadership. Her social justice advocacy work started in high school when she Chaired Addis Ababa Girls’ Forum-which facilitated discussions and organizing amongst girls laying the foundation for reforming legislative intervention against sexual abuse in Ethiopia. As the first women president of Addis Ababa University Students’ Union: she reaffirmed the need for and organized various youth-led student movements despite the hostile university context. One of the 22 young African women selected as part of the writing for social change workshop organized by AWDF and FEMRITE in Kampala, Uganda. An alumnus of the prestigious Mandela Washington Fellowship. Amongst her multilayered affiliations, she sits on the advisory council of ActionAid Ethiopia. Zemdena is a graduate of Political Science & International Relations. Asserting the notion that African women and girls have the right to a life free of patriarchal injustices, sexual violence and conflict :she has attended and organized peaceful protests ,lead the formation of women peace press clubs, WHRDs coalition, migrant returnees association feminist peace lab , convened virtual and in-person safe spaces for marginalized women from diverse backgrounds, built the capacity of grassroots women on WSPs advocacy tactics, social media campaigning, as well as written Memos and common position paper on various topics including National Dialogue. Her writings of existence and resistance can be found on Pambazuka, Africa is a Country, HBF, African Feminism et al.
- Email: zemdena@sihanet.org
- Mobile Number: 251911935524
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POLITICAL PARTY LEADER Abebech is the head of the women department in Boro Democratic Party. She is also secretary of the Ethiopian Political Party Joint Council’s women wing. She has BA degree in Water Resources and Irrigation from Gondar University. She is now working in Benishangul region, Metekel zone, Debate Woreda as a team leader on clean water infrastructure construction and maintenance.
- Email: abebech279@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251927809514
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GOOD GOVERNANCE/CONFLICT MITIGATION Bethlehem is the Director and Editor-in-Chief at Horn Review. As co-founder, she oversees research and training programs, as well as the editorial process at Horn Review. Bethlehem holds a B.A. in Comparative Politics from Furman University and an M.A. in International Economics and Conflict Management from the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Her research interests include intractable and identity-based conflicts, negotiation process and design, as well as climate change and the onset of conflict. Prior to her work at Horn Review, Bethlehem worked with the Ethiopian Ministry of Federal Affairs in the design of government approaches to preventing and managing conflict. She also worked with FARM Africa’s Building Resilience and Adaptation Against Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) project in assessing benefits of microfinance institutions in aiding low-income households recover from natural disasters. Most recently, she worked with the Center for Development and Strategy (CDS) as an External Relations Manager, and served as an Admissions Ambassador with the Johns Hopkins University SAIS from 2018 to 2020.
- Email: bethlehem@hornreview.org
- Mobile Number: 251940121821
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POLITICIAN Desta has politically engaged to solve the problematic political history of Ethiopia as a member of EPRP for the last three years. She worked as a clinical nurse for six years. She was a pharmacist and a lecturer at a university and she is a pharmacology candidate at Addis Ababa University.
- Email: destafafina@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251913679287