Abstract
Political security is the main integral component of human security and which is referring to the prevention of government repression, systematic violation of human rights and threats from militarization. Ethiopia has endorsed human rights from UDHR and by its FDRE, (1995) constitution in which such rights are accounts one third of the contents of the constitutions. The paper was aimed at examining the situations of political security and its challenge from legal perspective. It was investigated through qualitative research approach, secondary sources of data were highly employed, the time framed focused since 2005. According to the finding of the research the political security situations of Ethiopia characterized by torture and ill-treatment, political repression and enforced disappearances which are made by legal and institutional mechanisms by declaring different proclamations like Antiterrorism proclamation (ATP), Mass Media Proclamation (MMP), and Charity and Society proclamation (CSP) which are highly prohibiting the civil liberties and political rights of citizens’ of Ethiopia. Keywords: Political security, torture, political repression, disappearance DOI : 10.7176/IAGS/72-01 Publication date :May 31 st 2019
Highlights
The foremost concept of security, conventionally, was state centric, encompassing support and lawfulness to instruments of states and protecting the principle of state sovereignty
The paper includes the concepts of security and human security, and mainly focused on the essential components of human security on political security which can be defined as the prevention of government systemic political repression, disappearance, torture and ill-treatment and it is the protection human right .The paper mainly examined the situation of political security and the legal instruments that made political insecurity in Ethiopia
The main intention of the paper was to examine the situation of political security and legal instruments for political insecurity in Ethiopia.eventhough the constitution recognition prevail about human right and democratic right, the practice is viewed as reciprocal ways with the constitutionally degreed rights
Summary
The foremost concept of security, conventionally, was state centric, encompassing support and lawfulness to instruments of states and protecting the principle of state sovereignty. Whereas human security describes security as individual's personal protection and preservation, which materializes not just from safeguarding of the state as a political unit, and from the protection against structural violence that often accompanies many aspects of non-territorial threats. Political security one of the most important aspects of human security in which people should be able to live in a society that honours their basic human rights. In this respect, there has been considerable progress. Political security defined as the prevention of government repression, systematic violation of human rights and threats from militarization This was intended to establish an agenda that would protect people against states that continued to practice political repression, systematic torture, ill treatment and disappearance.. The right to be free from arbitrary or political arrest and detention, (4) the right to be free from disappearance (Articles 9 and 10, and the Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance). (5) The right to political participation (Article 25), (6) the right to opinion and expression (Article 19), and (7) the rights to assembly (Article 21) and association (Article 22.) These indicators are closely related with political security of the citizen of a state such conventional rights are adopted by Ethiopian constitution
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