STORIES & ARTICLES | #MeTooEthiopia

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...

#MeTooEthiopia – Empowering citizens to demand change

#MeTooEthiopia was recently covered by The Reporter Ethiopia. Here is the full article below. Tiemert Shimelis is one of the founders of ...

Time to be Feminist

Few years back, a close friend of mine told me she doesn’t want to be labeled as feminist. “Whenever I say something about women or that w...

Why I Didn't Report

When women started coming out of the woodwork stating that they too had been sexually harassed or assaulted by a man, people wondered, “W...

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 ...

Helen Show with #MeTooEthiopia and Setaweet

The Helen Show hold a conversation with one of the #MeTooEthiopia co-founder Tiemert Shimelis and with Setaweet movement that is based in...

Why Catcalling is Wrong

How does one even try to make others understand the injustice in catcalling when it is so common in our day-to-day culture? My fellow inj...

Ethiopian women abroad give abuse survivors a new platform by Public Radio International

PRI's The World By Allison Herrera "When the Instagram page Shades of Injera was started in 2014, the slogan was “We don't follow the cul...

Ethiopia Confronts Sexual Violence With #MeToo Hashtag After ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ By Travel Noire

After “Surviving R. Kelly,” the three-part Lifetime documentary that documented the disgraced R&B star’s decades-long alleged abuse, the ...

Melting Scars (Acid Attacks: The Reality We Disregard)

The first time I heard about acid attacks was over a decade ago. At that time, I walked into my home to see my mother’s livid face: A fac...

End Domestic Violence Against Women

Join the movement to end sexual violence www.metooethiopia.com and sign the petition. Created and Produced by @kaytoonstudios. Presented...

Spotlight: #MeTooEthiopia "Assault is a Crime, not a Culture"

http://www.tadias.com/04/16/2019/spotlight-metooethiopia-assault-is-a-crime-not-a-culture/

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 ...

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#MeTooEthiopia

Assault is a crime, not a culture