Villagers say they are being forcibly relocated from Ethiopia's Gambella region. (Getty Images/AFP)
14 July 2014
A legal battle has been launched by an Ethiopian citizen who claims the UK has helped to fund a “brutal” resettlement programme in his country.
The man, who can only be referred to as “O”, won permission to seek a judicial review at London’s High Court.
He wants a ruling that the UK acted unlawfully by providing aid to Ethiopia without assessing its human rights record.
The UK government has denied funding the programme.
The case arises from Ethiopia’s decision to resettle individuals from rural communities into new and larger “communes”, known as the Commune Development Programme (CDP), in an attempt to reduce poverty.
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