Ratification of Regional/International Human Rights Instruments 33. Ethiopia has not ratified the following human rights instruments: i. Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights; ii. African Union Convention for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa; iii. Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa; iv. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families; v. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 34. The Commission is concerned about the: i. negative impact of agri-business activities on customs, traditional modes of living and about the fact that local populations are displaced for the purposes of such industrial activities; ii. existence of a cross-section of the population who live in poor socialeconomic conditions and lack access to basic amenities such as food, health care, education, housing and employment; iii. high rate of unemployment which in urban areas is officially 17.5 percent for 2011/2012; iv. low level of HIV/AIDS sensitization programmes, in particular programmes targeting the youth in underprivileged communities as well as the insufficiency of services for children orphaned by HIV, services to prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission (MTCT) and Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART). 11 | P a g e