Issues of Minority Rights in the Ethiopian Federation
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 20 pages, pdf Description: By taking the objective, subjective and the combination of both criteria of defining minorities, Ethiopia is a land of minorities. There is not any one ethnic group that claims to be in a majority position at the federal /national level. However, the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia tries to create majority ethnic groups at the regional states/ subnational level by making ethnicity incongruent with the territorial demarcation of the constituent units of the federation. Thus, this ethno-territorial organization left a number of ethnic groups as a minority outside their designated ethno-territorial setting.