Lord Collins of Highbury, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL477):
Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of Ethiopia’s adequacy of draft transitional justice policy in safeguarding human rights; and how they are supporting their counterparts in Ethiopia to ensure that justice and accountability for the Tigray War are prioritised as a pathway to the peaceful co-existence of communities. (HL477)
Tabled on: 30 July 2024
Answer:
Lord Collins of Highbury:
We welcome the approval of the national transitional justice policy by the Ethiopian Government’s Council of Ministers. The nationally owned policy and recently published roadmap are encouraging steps towards accountability and justice. The test of the policy will be will in the implementation. The UK has continually called for a credible, inclusive, and survivor-centred approach to transitional justice and for all human rights violations and atrocities in Ethiopia to be investigated and perpetrators to be held to account. Through our Human Rights and Peacebuilding Programme, we support survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in northern Ethiopia to lead the recovery from conflict and advance women’s leadership and inclusion in regional and national dialogue, accountability and peacebuilding processes.
Date and time of answer: 05 Aug 2024 at 11:07.
