The Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO) is often severely condemned and vilified by the regime and its media. This is of course to be expected from such a regime, which wants the world; especially the west to believe all is right in Ethiopia. But the strange fact is that most western diplomats in Addis Ababa are collaborating with the regime to vilify EHRCO.

In this paper, an attempt is made, to define socio- economic development in elation to the rights of people. Based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other UN Declarations and conventions ratified by Ethiopia, and the various laws of the country, including the current constitution of the Federal of Ethiopia, an assessment of the state of socio-economic development is made in relation to the questions of unemployment and its consequences, particularly those of children and youth, the educational condition, the health and nutritional status of the people and the housing condition in the country.