For many people, access to land is necessary to realizing human rights. Although not clearly recognized in international human rights law, the right to land might be inferred from many of its provisions. In the Ethiopian context, the Constitution guarantees access to land. However, this right is being eroded because of the government’s measures to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for land through expropriation and the allocation of ‘vacant’ land. This article argues the former gives the government extensive power while the latter neglects traditional communal landholding system. This desk research based on literature review, legal analysis and secondary data, demonstrates how the government’s actions are impinging on the human rights of the people in the rural areas and recommends reform in the land-tenure system as well as the harmonization of the subsidiary expropriation laws through the Constitution.

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一种获取土地和土地所有权的人权方法：对埃塞俄比亚法律和惯例的审查

对于许多人来说，获得土地是实现人权的必要条件。尽管国际人权法没有明确承认，但土地权可以从其许多规定中推断出来。在埃塞俄比亚的情况下，《宪法》保证获得土地。但是，由于政府采取措施通过征用和分配“空置”土地来满足不断增长的土地需求，这项权利正在受到侵蚀。本文认为，前者赋予政府广泛的权力，而后者则忽略了传统的社区土地所有权制度。该案头研究基于文献综述，法律分析和辅助数据，