Stories

Talking about sexual assult in churches

The famous “Bishop” Dawit Molalegn of FBI church recently did this to my friend. She was walking down the street, and Dawit kept slowly f...

Bogaletch Gebre, the Ethiopian women's rights activist

Gebre was born in 1953 in the remote Zata village of Ethiopia’s Kembatta district, about 255 miles southwest of the country’s capital, Ad...

Ye Kake Werdwot: 1855, an Ethiopian woman’s fight for equality

During a time in which modern schooling was not available in the country; a time when human rights, let alone women’s rights, were consis...

Raped by my Brother for Five Years

I was 16 when I first came to Addis Ababa. My half-brother then a police officer, was the one who brought me to the city for better educa...

A man murdered and dismembered his girlfriend and run away with her head and arms

Back in October 2018, at approximately 4 in the morning, a man named Kedir Shiferaw (also known as Anatoli Kiros) killed his girlfriend, ...

Amreya Shefa: My Husband's Prisoner

Amreya Shefa hasn’t known freedom since setting foot in the United States. After her husband brought her from Ethiopia in 2012, Shefa say...

My Rapist Was HIV Positive

I am married and a mother of two beautiful girls. I work in a government institution. Up until one horrible night, I was happy with every...

Stories We Ignore: Protect Our Boys

“I don’t feel right today”, a single mother named Senayit whispered to herself. The feeling was a sense of disturbance, as if to know som...

Shame and Silencing victims

Growing up in a strict Ethiopian Christian household, the topic of sex was never up for discussion. Once I left Ethiopia - at the age of ...

Selamawit Kelbessa: Survivor of an Acid Attack Tragically Passed Away

Selemawit Tefera Kelbessa was a former Ethiopian Airlines hostess who moved to Maryland, United States in 2016, due to social unrest and ...

Thriver: From Victim to Survivor

I have been following this page since it was created. Reading the stories of survivors has offered me great relief and a sense of solida...

A LET-DOWN CHILD HEALS; A JOURNEY TO GUILTLESS FREEDOM

I was about EIGHT when I started taking piano classes, on weekends when I could and three times a week in the summer. I took classes for ...

A STORY OF SHAME AND #METOO

Why am I unsure about this one? The grapple with vulnerability and my eventual surrender to it's might have always led me to good places ...

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#MeTooEthiopia

Assault is a crime, not a culture