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Staff from Specsavers in Ellesmere Port travel to Horn of Africa to give vital aid Optometrist Alex Whitter from Specsavers in Ellesmere Port during his time in Ethiopia More than 1,000 people in Ethiopia have received eyecare thanks to an optician and a lab technician from Ellesmere Port. Optometrist Alex Whitter and lab technician Mike Horsefield, who both work in the Ellesmere Port Specsavers store, travelled to the Horn of Africa where they worked to give vital aid to people without access to eyecare. They visited villages near the city of Hawassa in the Great Rift Valley to give much-needed eye tests to more than 1,000 people and glasses to those who needed them. Working with Vision Aid Overseas, the pair also trained optometry students at Hawassa University. They also set out to teach people to make their own glasses, help the locals become self-sufficient and improve the level of eyecare in the area. The trip was Alex’s sixth with the charity which saw him leadi

Oromo youth in North Norway on March 1, 2014 protested against the ongoing human rights violations, inhuman killings, and the repression carried out by the criminal Ethiopian government, and the Oromo youth urged the TPLF/ERPDF to stop dictatorship with impunity. It is unjust that the continued sufferings of the Oromo people through systematic human rights abuses by the Ethiopian government are largely ignored by governments around the world. Yet, the heinous crimes of the TPLF/EPRDF government rank high in the catalogue of human right abuses committed by African governments.  Over the past two decades, the TPLF-led Ethiopian government has imprisoned tens of thousands of Oromo nationals; the situation of several thousands of innocent Oromo political prisoners has deteriorated in prisons and secret camps. Many Oromos have been (and are being) cruelly tortured, killed, uprooted, raped and exiled. Others have been abducted in broad daylight, and made to disappear or murdered secret

The story of corruption has been spoken and written about for a long time now that most Zimbabweans thought that by now some corrupt government officials would be facing the wrath of the law, but unfortunately, that has not happened. Sunday View with Kimion Tagwireyi It appears that only the less powerful are being brought to book while notoriously dirty giants masquerade as clean men. Is anyone above the law? Delays or failure to curb corruption will eventually ruin Zimbabwe. Corruption causes many political, economic, social and environmental challenges. A few days before World Anti-Corruption Day in December, the department of Islamic Development in Malaysia, Jakim urged Muslims to combat corruption, saying that it could ruin their nation, “the scourge of corruption can destroy good values, justice, oppress people and ruin democracy.” Well-said Jakim; we must be reminded that corruption undermines democratic institutions, slows down economic development and contributes t

In its 2013 report, the U.S Department of State has put the spotlight on the issue of human rights violations in Ethiopia, notably those effecting women, children and minorities. The report details stringent new accountability requirements directed at the Government of Ethiopia in a new 2014 bill. Below is an article published by   the  Ogaden News Agency : The U.S. Department of State’s 2013 report has revealed the human rights violations in Ethiopia. The reports states that one of the major violations in Ethiopia has been on “Freedom of Speech and Assembly.”The report said the human rights violations included arbitrary killings; allegations of torture, beating, abuse, and mistreatment of detainees by security forces; reports of harsh and, at times, life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention; detention without charge and lengthy pre trial detention; a weak, overburdened judiciary subject to political influence; infringement on citizens’ privacy rights,

A serious gender imbalance in global education has left over 100 million young women in low and lower middle income countries unable to read a single sentence, and will prevent half of the 31 million girls out of school from ever enrolling. These are among the main findings of the Gender Summary, which analyses data from the latest edition of UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report. The new summary, launched for International Women's Day in partnership with the United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI), calls for equity to be at the forefront of new global development goals after 2015 so that every child has an equal chance of learning through quality education. Despite some progress, in 2011, only 60% of countries had achieved parity in primary education and only 38% of countries had achieved parity in secondary education. Among low income countries, just 20% had achieved gender parity at the primary level, 10% at the lower secondary level and 8% at the upper