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| dc.contributor.author | Sisay, Yohannes | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-16T07:38:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-16T07:38:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-07 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/15781 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Human trafficking goes against the central value of international human rights norms. The international human rights law outlawed human trafficking and all forms of exploitation. In addition, the international community adopted the Trafficking Protocol to address all aspects of trafficking and protect the human rights of victims. Both human rights law and transnational criminal law require States to respect the right of protection from trafficking and to take positive actions to address the problem and protect victims. The failure to do so entails the obligation to provide remedies for VoTs. Accordingly, providing an effective remedy for VoTs is a central aspect of international legal response to trafficking, confirming the status of VoTs as victims of crime and human rights violations. This thesis examined the right to effective remedies for victims of trafficking under the Ethiopian legal frameworks and the implementation at the national level. Accordingly, it explored the available legal remedies for VoTs under Ethiopian laws and evaluated the compatibility of the laws with the international and African human rights instruments and transnational criminal law instruments ratified by Ethiopia. It also assessed the practical implementation, gaps, and impediments. In doing so, a combination of doctrinal and empirical qualitative legal research methodology was applied. Data from both primary and secondary sources were collected and analysed. Relevant international, regional, and national laws were analysed. Further, purposively selected government bodies, NOGs, and victims were interviewed, and government plans and national and international reports were consulted to appraise the implementation. Consequently, this thesis found that the Ethiopian legal frameworks recognize an absolute right of protection from trafficking. Ethiopia enacted Proclamation No.1178/2020 to meet its international duty to address trafficking and to provide remedies for VoTs. This research argued that the right to remedies for VoTs including restitution, compensation, rehabilitation and recovery, satisfaction, guarantee of non-repetition, and other procedural rights are provided under Proc. No. 1178/2020 and other laws. But there are some gaps and inconsistencies that must be improved to effectively remedy VoTs. Moreover, it is argued that efforts have been made to implement the right to effective remedies for VoTs though it is not effective in practice. Therefore, this thesis concluded that Ethiopia has taken commendable legislative, administrative, and practical measures to recognize and implement the right to effective remedies for VoTs but it is short of legal and practical effectiveness. Accordingly, recommendations are forwarded for the improvement of normative and practical gaps. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Law | en_US |
| dc.title | The Right to Effective Remedies for Victims of Trafficking In Persons in Ethiopia: The Legal Frameworks and the Implementation | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
