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14 Mizan L. Rev. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/mizanlr14 and id is 1 raw text is: Access to Justice for PWDs in Civil Proceedings before the Federal Courts of Ethiopia: The Law and Practice Aschalew Ashagre' Abstract Persons with disabilities (PWDs) are among the most vulnerable groups to social, economic and political problems. Various UN General Assembly declarations on the rights of PWDS serve as soft laws for the protection of the rights of PWDs; and the international Bill of Rights can be applicable to their protection. In particular, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) contains provisions that recognize and protect various aspects of the rights of PWDS. The Convention clearly declares the rights of PWDs to access to justice both in civil and criminal proceedings. Ethiopia is a party to this Convention, and in effect, it has an international duty to implement, among other things, the right of access to justice for PWDs in judicial proceedings. This article examines access for PWDs in the Federal Courts in civil proceedings. It focuses on the legal and practical problems in the implementation of the right to access to justice in spite of attempts made by the government in this regard. Additional legislative and institutional improvements are thus necessary -to the extent possible- in order to realize the rights of access to justice for PWDs since substantive rights will remain meaningless in the absence of access to justice. Key terms: Access to justice - Federal courts - Persons with disabilities - Civil proceedings DOI http://dx.doi.org/l0.4314/mlr.v14i1.1 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) Received: 31 March 2020 (Version 2) Accepted: 10 September 2020 * Aschalew Ashagre, Assistant Professor of Law, School of Law, College of Law and Governance Studies, Addis Ababa University; Consultant and Attorney at law; PhD Candidate. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1970-7554 I thank my research assistants Yehualsahet Tamiru and Tarekegn Damessa who helped me in distributing questionnaires and arranging focus group discussions. I also thank judges of federal courts who filled out questionnaires and gave interviews, and individuals who participated in focus group discussion. The earlier version of this work was presented at the Third International Law and Development Conference held from September 19-22 in Leiden 2018, the Netherlands. Email: gakidan.ashagre335@gmail.com or aschalew.ashagre@aau.edu.et 1

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