ETHIOPIA 2022 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT: Executive Summary

Ethiopia’s constitution provides for an ethnic-based federal system of government. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party dominated the 2021 general election, winning more than 96 percent of the 468 seats up for election in the House of Peoples’ Representatives, and formed a government. Voting for the 79 remaining seats representing other constituencies, including the entire …

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2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Ethiopia (Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor)

Ethiopia’s constitution provides for an ethnic-based federal system of government. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party dominated the 2021 general election, winning more than 96 percent of the 468 seats up for election in the House of Peoples’ Representatives, and formed a government. Voting for the 79 remaining seats representing other constituencies, including the entire …

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2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor)

The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Report – cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements. The U.S. Department of State submits reports on all countries receiving assistance and all United Nations member states …

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Thirteen Years Ago He Explained the Fourth Dimension, Now People Think It’s Taken Him (Danielbonfiglio)

On January 5th, 2010, YouTuber xkcdHatGuy released his first video, titled, “4th Dimension Explained By a High-School Student.” The video currently sits at 33 million views and would forever alter his life. The video was a massive hit, and viewers couldn’t help but feel transfixed by a young man with a surprisingly deep voice, explaining an incomprehensibly …

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7 Early Imaginings of Artificial Intelligence (Dave Roos)

The concept of an “intelligent machine”—as a tireless assistant, the ultimate soldier or even a caring companion—has captivated the human imagination for thousands of years. Long before artificial intelligence was a reality, writers from ancient Greece to Cold War-era America spun fictional stories that reflected our collective hopes and fears about AI. Will intelligent machines …

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Ethiopian History

Unique among African countries, the ancient Ethiopian monarchy maintained its freedom from colonial rule with the exception of a short-lived Italian occupation from 1936-41. In 1974, a military junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (who had ruled since 1930) and established a socialist state. Torn by bloody coups, uprisings, wide-scale drought, and massive refugee …

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