2nd Annual International Conference of Ethiopian Women in the Diaspora Center for the Rights of Ethiopian Women (CREW); January 28, 2013

Violence against Ethiopian women

For so many years Ethiopian women have been facing violence both in county side and abroad becouse the loss of getting protection from government side and immune law practice.
so many Ethiopian womens have been the victum and died  in Middle East countries becouse they dont get protection from their own country government, no one is able to help  and contact them during their hard time being abussed , family in ethiopia has been recieving so many dead body without knowing what happen to their children, and others get lost contact to family and no one knows where they are, and also inside the country great number of reports showing  violence against Ethiopian women has increased in a warning rate, for example,Domesticviolenc, ,trafficking women,  femail genital mutilation,  early marraige..etc.

2nd Annual International Conference of Ethiopian Women in the Diaspora The Center for the Rights of Ethiopian Women (CREW), which hosts the 2nd Annual International Conference of Ethiopian women in the Diaspora, is calling for papers.

Call for Paper

The Center for Rights of Ethiopian Women (CREW) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-partisan, human rights and peace organization established to promote & educate the social, economic and legal rights of Ethiopian women in Ethiopia and worldwide. CREW would like to see the rights of Ethiopian women are achieved and their full and equal human rights realized. To that end, CREW is organizing the Second Annual Conference of Ethiopian Women in the Diaspora to be held on March 23, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA.

The theme of this conference is “End Violence against Ethiopian Women,” and this is in line with the theme of the 57th session of UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The primary objective of this conference is to build a common understanding on the different forms of violence against Ethiopian women, the magnitude, root causes of the problem, and come-up with strategies to end violence against Ethiopian women.Numerous reports have come out showing violence against Ethiopian women has increased at an alarming rate. Ethiopian women face increasing violence both in Ethiopia and in the Diaspora. For instance, domestic violence, trafficking in women, abduction, female genital mutilation (FGM) and early marriage are among those listed in the reports. Therefore, CREW’s Second Annual International Conference will focus on the following areas:

1. The root causes of violence against Ethiopian women
2. Domestic Violence against Ethiopian women
3. Trafficking in Women.
4. Violence against Ethiopian women domestic workers in the Middle East Countries

Violence against Ethiopian women domestic workers in the Middle East Countries

CREW would like to invite interested individuals to present papers on the above identified areas If you are interested please submit a one page abstract by February 15, 2013 addressed to the Program Committee by e-mail using ethiowomen@gmail.com
We look forward to hearing from you,

CREW Program Committee www.centerforethiopia.org

Address: Center for the rights of Ethiopia Women 7835 Easter Ave Silver Spring MD 20910 E-Mail: ethiowomen@gmail
Center for the Rights of Ethiopian Women is a peace & human rights organization created in March 2012 to promote the rights of Ethiopian women worldwide