LLB (AAU), LLM (UP)
Doctoral candidate
Merga Dibaba has been working for the last eight years in the area of promotion and protection of human rights, particularly disability rights, and children’s rights with different regional and national human rights organisations. He has worked with the African Committee of experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC), and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and Ethiopian Ministry of Justice. He holds LLM in human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria and LLB from Addis Ababa University. Currently Merga is undertaking doctoral study at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria where he is also working as a program coordinator.
Publication:
MY Dibaba ‘The implications of article 12 of the Convention on the Right of Persons with Disabilities for the legal capacity of persons with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in Ethiopia’ (2019) 7 African Disability Rights Yearbook 3-34
