CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Gebiremichael, Mekonnen Fisseha |
|---|---|
| Title | Revisiting affirmative action in Ethiopia: Towards gender equality and the anti-discriminaion approach: The South African experience |
| Summary | The concept of affirmative action spurs greater philosophical, ideological, and lively discussions, with particular regard the examination of its special relationship with equality. Issues of equality and affirmative action raise “exceedingly complex” arguments both in the social and legal discourse. In the legal literature, a lot has been said about the concept of affirmative action and equality. But many of the arguments centre on affirmative action measures which are provided in ordinary legislation but not in the Constitution. However, my focus in this paper is to examine a constitutionally guaranteed affirmative action measures from the national experiences, namely Ethiopia and South Africa. By so doing, I will look into new insights in the legal literature from the constitutional and legislative protection of gender equality through affirmative action. This paper is a comparative study of constitutional and legislative protection of gender equality through affirmative action in Ethiopia and South Africa. To this end, I will draw important lessons from South Africa, particularly at the level of further legislative protection and institutional framework, which can be used as best practices for Ethiopia. The starting hypothesis of the paper is this: constitutional protection of affirmative action is necessary but not sufficient to solve the existing problems facing Ethiopian women. The paper will look into the reasons why there is still wide difference between genders in Ethiopia in almost all spheres of life. More specifically, the paper seeks to examine the reasons why the situation of Ethiopian women is still lagging behind in social, economic and political spheres when compared to the situation of South African women. |
| Supervisor | Csilla Kollonay-Lehoczky |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/gebiremichael_mekonnen.pdf |
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