Ethiopia swore in its first female Supreme Court chief on Thursday, part of a wave of appointments of women to top government positions backed by Ethiopia's new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The new ...

Meaza Ashenafi is a leading advocate for justice, human rights, women's rights and gender equality. She was a founder and the first executive director of the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association.

Ethiopia's gender equality efforts are getting some well-deserved attention lately. On Oct. 16, the country's prime minister Abiy Ahmed appointed women to half of the positions in the cabinet. Last ...

Meaza Ashenafi's appointment as president of the highest court followed Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's moves last month to designate a woman in the ceremonial role of president and also to name a ...

The wave of reforms that has dazzled Ethiopia, and the world, has reached the shores of the judicial sector, with the appointment of Meaza Ashenafi as the first ever woman President of the Supreme ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian lawmakers have approved the country's first female Supreme Court president. The move Thursday came just a week after lawmakers elected Ethiopia's first female ...

Meaza Ashenafi elected as the first woman to head Ethiopia's federal supreme courtMeaza Ashenafi elected as the first woman to head Ethiopia's federal supreme court ...

Ethiopia swore in its first female Supreme Court chief on Thursday, part of a wave of appointments of women to top government positions backed by Ethiopia's new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The new ...

Human rights lawyer Meaza Ashenafi was sworn in Thursday as the head of Ethiopia's Supreme Court by the country's parliament in a wave of appointments for women in top government positions. Human ...