Meaza Ashenafi, whose civic organization EWELA (Ethiopian Women's Lawyers Association) has been
incapacitated by TPLF mafia, is vindicated at 2014's Sundance International Film Festival with a film entitled
Difret which becomes Winner of the Audience Award for World Cinema Dramatic.
Difret ( which literally means in Amharic courage) is a film based on a true story and revolves around an Ethiopian young girl who was abducted for forced marriage and killed her husband in self-defense and then represented by a lawyer in this case Meaza Ahenafi.
Born of an illiterate mother and a civil servant father in Assosa,a small town near the Sudan border, she received her LLB degree from Addis Ababa University and was qualified as a lawyer in 1986. Meaza established Ethiopia's leading women's legal aid, education and policy-reform organization in 1995
