They also provide for the rights to the protection of the home and family, and specific protection of children in times of armed conflict. 234 These provisions prohibit violations of the right to life, torture and other inhuman and degrading treatment, arbitrary arrest and detention, and unfair trials. 233 Ethiopia has incorporated many of the provisions of the most important human rights treaties in its constitution and other relevant national legislation. International human rights law is also applicable, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 231, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 232, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.

It also provides rules on the conduct of hostilities to minimize unnecessary suffering.

International humanitarian law forbids deliberately harming civilians and other persons no longer taking part in the hostilities, including wounded or captured combatants. Ethiopia is a party to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and both Protocol II. Ethiopian state forcesthe Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) and pro-government militiasand the ONLF are obligated to observe article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 (common article 3), the Second Additional Protocol of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions (Protocol II), applicable to non-international armed conflicts, and relevant customary international law.

Under international law, the conflict between Ethiopia and the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) in the eastern Somali Region is a non-international (internal) armed conflict in which both parties are bound by international humanitarian law (the laws of war).

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