Communication 341/07 - Equality Now v Ethiopia
(a) Declares that the Respondent State violated Article 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7(1 )(a) of the
Charter;
(b) Declares that there was no violation of Article 2 of the Charter;
(c) Requests the Respondent State to pay Ms Woineshet Zebene Negash the sum of
US$150,000.00 as compensation for the non-material damage she suffered as a
result for the affirmed violations.
(d) Requests the Respondent State to adopt and implement escalated measures to
specifically deal with marriage by abduction and rape; monitor instances of
marriage by abduction and rape; and diligently prosecute and sanction
offenders. In this regard, the Respondent State should also continue training
judicial officers on specific human rights themes including on handling cases of
violence against women.
(e) Requests the Respondent State to report to the Commission within 180 days on
the measures adopted to implement the above recommendations; and also
include in its next periodic report yearly statistics on the prevalence of
marriages by abduction and rape, cases of successful prosecutions, and
challenges faced if any.
Adopted this 16th day of November 2015 during the 57th Ordinary Session of the African
Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights held from 4-18 November 2015 in Banjul,
The Gambia