Recent information on this specific subject is currently unavailable to the IRBDC in Ottawa.

According to the publication Women's Movements of the World, there is a "Revolutionary Ethiopia Women's Association" (REWA) (1988, 83). The Yearbook on International Communist Affairs identifies the REWA as an "Auxiliary Organization" of the former Mengistu regime's party, the Workers' Party of Ethiopia (WPE) (Staar 1989, 12).

For further information on this association please refer to the attached documents.

Women's Movements of the World. 1988. Edited by Sally Shreir. A Keesing's Reference Publication. Longman.

Staar, Richard F. and Margit Grigory. 1989. Yearbook on International Communist Affairs: Parties and Revolutionary Movements. Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press.

Africa Confidential. 8 November 1991. Vol. 32, No. 22. "Ethiopia."

BBC Summary of World Broadcasts. 6 December 1988. "Ethiopia Urgent Meeting Discusses Implementation of WPE Central Committees Resolutions". [Addis Ababa, 3 Dec. 1988]. (Nexis)

Shreir, Sally, ed. 1988. Women's Movements of the World. Edited by A Keesing's Reference Publication. Longman.

Staar, Richard F. and Margit Grigory. 1989. Yearbook on International Communist Affairs: Parties and Revolutionary Movements. Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press.