Assessing the Right of Access to Justice of Victims of International Organizations Having Jurisdictional Immunity in Ethiopia

Abstract

The jurisdictional immunity of international organizations has the role of allowing IOs to undertake their function fully without the interference of host states. Constituent instruments of IOs and headquarter agreements serve this role by conspicuously putting forth the role of host country judicial organs in entreating IOs whenever there is a conflict. In return, IOs adopts the means of providing justice to the citizens of the host state and others in its internal laws to settle disputes within the organization internally. Nevertheless, IOs residing in Ethiopia are curtailing victims’ access to justice in the Federal High Court of Ethiopia in a civil case