Open AccessCybercrime Lawmaking and Human Rights in Ethiopia
Author(s) -
Kinfe Micheal Yilma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mizan law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-902X
pISSN - 1998-9881
DOI - 10.4314/mlr.v15i1.3
Subject(s) - cybercrime , proclamation , human rights , legislation , political science , law , lawmaking , scope (computer science) , sociology , the internet , legislature , computer science , world wide web , programming language
Ethiopia has embarked upon an ambitious project of revising a number of laws with a view to entrench human rights and democratic governance. Part of this legal reform program has been the revision of Computer Crime Proclamation No 958/2016. This article examines key aspects of the Draft Computer Crime Proclamation prepared by the Media Law Working Group from a human rights perspective. As it shall be shown in this article, making the cybercrime legal regime human rights friendly has been the overarching objective of the revision project. Most human rights concerns associated with the current cybercrime legislation are, as a result, rectified in the cybercrime Bill. However, the Bill goes overboard in embracing themes that go well beyond the scope of cybercrime legislation. With respect to the overall revision process, the article submits that the process has not been sufficiently inclusive.