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Ottawa urged to review how Ethiopia spends Canadian aid money
A recent Human Rights Watch report says donor countries like Canada are inadvertently supporting Ethiopia's controversial villagization programme. Critics say the programme, which involves the forced relocation of tens of thousands of Ethiopian farmers in an alleged land grab by foreign agri-corporations, has led to widespread human rights violations and in some cases, starvation.
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- http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/01/17/waiting-here-death
- http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/01/16/ethiopia-forced-relocations-bring-hunger-hardship
- http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/ethiopia
- http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/01/17/ethiopia-human-rights.html
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