The African System as a “Norm Leader” As Obiora Okafor and Godwin Dzah wrote, the African human rights system is rarely imagined as “an originator, agent and purveyor” of norms.…
Author: Bantayehu Demlie Gezahegn
Bantayehu Demlie Gezahegn holds LL.M. in International Legal Studies from the American University Washington College of Law and LL.B. in Law and B.A. in Psychology from Addis Ababa University. He wrote his PhD thesis on ‘Migration as Part of the Right to Development’ at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, as a member of the inaugural cohort of the Elite Network of Bavaria’s International Doctorate Programme on Business and Human Rights. Bantayehu has extensive humanitarian sector experience, including serving as Irish Aid’s Humanitarian Programme Lead and as UNHCR protection staff in Ethiopia.
ANALYSIS Bantayehu Demlie Gezahegn 4 April 2022 In less than a month since 24 February 2022, at least 3.6 million people fled armed conflict in Ukraine according to the UN…