The Ethiopian government has been ordered to pay damages of SEK 1,2 million to a woman who says she was raped, abducted and forced to marry when she was 13 years.
Woineshet Zebene Negash, who was raped in 2001, turned to the Gambia-based African Commission on human and People’s rights 2007 after an Ethiopian court unraveled a conviction against her abuser. The human rights group Equality Now helped her to appeal the verdict.
The higher judicial panel concluded that Ethiopia must pay damages to Woineshet Zebene Negash, because the country neither offered her protection or justice.
Activists hope the verdict will deter illegal, tradition-bound form of child marriage.
the Ethiopian government has declined to comment on the case.
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