iv.
ensuring that laws and policies are expeditiously adopted to deal with the
challenges faced by internally displaced persons.
Due Process and Conditions of Detention
53. Ethiopia should:
i.
take appropriate measures to ensure strict respect of the 48 hours duration
of police custody and review the regime of pre-trial detention to comply
with international standards such as the Commission’s Guidelines on
Conditions of Arrest, Police Custody and Pre-trial Detention;
ii.
continue to ensure human rights training for the police and other law
enforcement officers;
iii.
organize vocational training activities/programmes in prisons to facilitate
the social reintegration of prisoners after they leave prison.
iv.
ensure that law enforcement Agencies draw inspiration from the
provisions of the Guidelines on the Conditions of Arrest, Police Custody
and Pre-trial detention in Africa while making or reviewing laws and
policies and in the curricula for training Police officers and prisons Agents
Death Penalty
54. Ethiopia should adopt a moratorium against the death penalty and eventually move
towards de jure abolition of the death penalty.
Indigenous Populations
55. Ethiopia refers to the Commission’s criterions on the recognition of the status of
indigenous populations to a specific section of the population, and recognises that
some ethnic groups in Ethiopia like the Oromo ethnic group are indigenous
populations who have specific human rights that need to be protected. They should
be represented at decision-making levels.
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