Movement of Persons in Regional Economic Communities in Eastern Africa

Martha Belete Hailu is an Assistant Professor of Law at the School of Law, Addis Ababa University. Her research areas focus on African regional integration, Ethiopian Bilateral Investment treaties and laws and WTO law in general. She has published in international and local journals on these themes. She also served as co- editor of the Ethiopian Year Book of International Law, published by Springer, for volumes 2-4.  She is member of the technical committee of the AfCFTA phase two negotiation for Ethiopia where she closely collaborates with the Ministry of Trade and Regional Integration (MoTRI) of Ethiopia regarding the phase II protocols. She has also served as member of the Investment Law reform technical committee that prepared the 2020 (currently in force) investment proclamation and regulation of Ethiopia.

• Introduction.- Multilateral Framework Governing Movement of Persons: Gats in Focus.- Regional Integration and Free Movement of Persons: Experience of Europe and Nafta.- African Economic Integration Schemes and Free Movement of Persons.- Labour Mobility Under the Recs in Eastern and Southern African Countries.- Bilateral Labour (Migration) Agreements.- Challenges in Implementing Free Movement of Persons.- Final Remarks.