Elshaday Kifle Woldeyesus - Involvement in human rights events

Human Rights Education at universities and in civil society – examples from the University of Graz, Addis Ababa University and Amnesty International Austria was the topic of the APPEAR workshop that was organised in the course of the 7th Austrian Development Conference in November 2017 at University of Graz.

Elshaday was invited to give an overview on human rights education in Ethiopia and to discuss the role of the government and civil society organizations in this regard. Furthermore, she focused on the importance of human rights education by taking examples from the ongoing protest since 2014 and from the struggle for the rights of women and disadvantaged groups.

On 7th of December 2017 Elshaday was invited to participate at the discussion after the screening of the movie, an event organised by the APPEAR programme in the framework of the event series Wissen.Schafft.Entwicklung., a film days series organised since 2012. The documentary “Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas” was screened in the course of the Vienna based International Human Rights Film Festival "this human world".

Land ownership, land grabbing and agricultural investment in Ethiopia are in the focus of the film that was followed by a discussion with Kalkidan Negash Obse and Elshaday Kifle Woldeyesus. Both are members of the APPEAR project AAPLHRE that works on human rights education at Ethiopian universities.

Elshaday Kifle Woldeyesus currently works at the Center for Human Rights at the Addis Ababa University and started her doctoral research on “Political Participation of Women in Ethiopia” at the University of Graz in October 2017. She was a researcher at the University for Peace – Africa Programme and at the Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development, World Bank. She holds a master’s degree from the United Nations mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica.