Rule of Law, Transparency and Corruption
Ratification of Critical Legal Norms
1. Ratification of core international human rights conventions. There are seven core human rights conventions currently in force. This indicator assesses whether a country's legal norms with respect to this core area are clearly consistent with international law. Using information from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), it assigns a value 0 to 7 for each country in each year based on the number of core conventions ratified. Other aspects of respect for human rights in practice are addressed through the next indicator in this sub-category, as well as through various indicators under the category of "Participation and Human Rights."
2. The presence of international sanctions for human rights violations, At the most basic level, it is important to know whether a country is in gross violation of international legal norms. This indicator is based on information denoting the imposition of sanctions for each year from the records of the UN Security Council.
3. Laws on contracts and property rights are other important areas for which clear legal norms are key. No acceptable measure yet exists for these important aspects of legal norms. The Index this year uses as a proxy the "Property Rights Index" developed as one of the ten sub-components of the Index of Economic Freedom, produced by the Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal. The Property Rights Index rates the degree to which a country's laws protect and enforce private property rights
Existence of Independent and Efficient Judicial Systems
1. Judicial Independence is a key aspect of a functioning judiciary and of the rule of law. Several projects are currently underway to code judicial Independence, but none is appropriate for use by the Index at this time.3 The Index this year relies instead on the "rule of law" sub-score from the civil liberties index of Freedom House's Freedom in the World. This is a composite measure that assesses the Independence of the judiciary, civilian control of police, protection from political terror, and equal treatment across various groups. It is based on detailed expert surveys, with low values suggesting poor rule of law and high values, better rule of law.
2. Efficiency of the courts, based on numbers of pre-trial detainees as a percentage of all detainees. Numbers are from statistics compiled by the International Centre for Prison Studies and from official national sources, gathered by our own country researchers.
3. Efficiency of national institutions regarding contract enforcement, based on the number of days it takes to settle a contract dispute. Estimates are drawn from the World Bank's Doing Business study.
Corruption
1. Public sector corruption from the annual "Corruption Perceptions Index" (CPI) of Transparency International and other information on the CPI published by the Internet Center for Corruption Research. The CPI is a composite index based on multiple polls from numerous institutions. In order to give scores for all countries, we also include some additional estimates based on information from the Internet Center. Possible scores range from 0 (high levels of perceived corruption) to 10 (low levels of perceived corruption). The CPI is the current gold standard for measuring nation-state corruption. Although comparisons of the CPI over time are problematic (as discussed further in the descriptive note to this indicator), it is the best measure available at this time.
Who is Responsible
Note: the profile and credential of the regime's officials is hard to find on the official website of the agencies they operate. We believe it is deliberate to conceal from the public from knowing their competence and background to hold important public office. We will do our best to find them, and your cooperation to lead us where we can find them is appreciated. Assefa Kessito (photo) Minster of Justice http://www.mojet.gov.et/index.htm link is broken no accessessRatification of Critical Legal Norms
1. Ratification of core international human rights conventions. There are seven core human rights conventions currently in force. This indicator assesses whether a country's legal norms with respect to this core area are clearly consistent with international law. Using information from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), it assigns a value 0 to 7 for each country in each year based on the number of core conventions ratified. Other aspects of respect for human rights in practice are addressed through the next indicator in this sub-category, as well as through various indicators under the category of "Participation and Human Rights."
2. The presence of international sanctions for human rights violations, At the most basic level, it is important to know whether a country is in gross violation of international legal norms. This indicator is based on information denoting the imposition of sanctions for each year from the records of the UN Security Council.
3. Laws on contracts and property rights are other important areas for which clear legal norms are key. No acceptable measure yet exists for these important aspects of legal norms. The Index this year uses as a proxy the "Property Rights Index" developed as one of the ten sub-components of the Index of Economic Freedom, produced by the Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal. The Property Rights Index rates the degree to which a country's laws protect and enforce private property rights
Existence of Independent and Efficient Judicial Systems
1. Judicial Independence is a key aspect of a functioning judiciary and of the rule of law. Several projects are currently underway to code judicial Independence, but none is appropriate for use by the Index at this time.3 The Index this year relies instead on the "rule of law" sub-score from the civil liberties index of Freedom House's Freedom in the World. This is a composite measure that assesses the Independence of the judiciary, civilian control of police, protection from political terror, and equal treatment across various groups. It is based on detailed expert surveys, with low values suggesting poor rule of law and high values, better rule of law.
2. Efficiency of the courts, based on numbers of pre-trial detainees as a percentage of all detainees. Numbers are from statistics compiled by the International Centre for Prison Studies and from official national sources, gathered by our own country researchers.
3. Efficiency of national institutions regarding contract enforcement, based on the number of days it takes to settle a contract dispute. Estimates are drawn from the World Bank's Doing Business study.
Corruption
1. Public sector corruption from the annual "Corruption Perceptions Index" (CPI) of Transparency International and other information on the CPI published by the Internet Center for Corruption Research. The CPI is a composite index based on multiple polls from numerous institutions. In order to give scores for all countries, we also include some additional estimates based on information from the Internet Center. Possible scores range from 0 (high levels of perceived corruption) to 10 (low levels of perceived corruption). The CPI is the current gold standard for measuring nation-state corruption. Although comparisons of the CPI over time are problematic (as discussed further in the descriptive note to this indicator), it is the best measure available at this time.
Who is Responsible
Since 2005
State Minister of Justice
A. Ratification of Critical legal Norm
Council of Minsters
House of Parliament standing Committees
House of Parliament standing Committees
Council of Minsters
State Minsters
Others
B. Independent and Efficient legal system
Parliament standing Committee
Council of Minsters Hashim Tewfiq see photo Since 2006Semegn Wube Since 2005
Some Background about the three judges of the Federal court presided on kinjit trial is posted on "The other side" a blog http://lewit.blogspot.com/2006/12/in-name-ofjustice.html
Federal Judges
C. Corruption Cabinet Minster
Parliament standing Committee
State Minsters
Others agencies/Commission
Federal ethics and Anti corruption commission
