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Kenya: Women's liberation is dead
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Author: Opinion, Lucy Oriang
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Date Written: 11 March 2010
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Primary Category:
Kenya
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Document Origin: The Nation via Africa News Update
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Secondary Category:
Gender
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Source URL:
http://www.afrika.no
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Key Words: Kenya, gender, empowerment, movement
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Summary & Comment:
In this opinion piece the author analyses why the one day dedicated to women - March 8 - went by in such muted fashion in Kenya. She calls for the revival of the women’s movement that hitherto fought for real gender equality. HSEN
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Kenya: Ode to a beat generation
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Author: J.K.S. Makokha
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Date Written: 11 March 2010
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Primary Category:
Kenya
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Document Origin: Pambazuka News 473
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Secondary Category:
Africas Image: Contemporary Issues
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Source URL:
http://www.pambazuka.org
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Key Words: Kenya, poem, beat generation,
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Summary & Comment:
A Kenyan poet, J.K.S. Makokha, dedicates his Ode to a beat generation to Kenyans born post-1969. DN
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Kenya: ICC submits list of violence suspects
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Author: CISA, Nairobi
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Date Written: 5 March 2010
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Primary Category:
Kenya
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Document Origin: Catholic Information Service for Africa
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Secondary Category:
-none-
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Source URL:
http://www.cisanewsafrica.org/
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Key Words: Kenya, post election, violence, suspects, ICC,
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Summary & Comment:
The International Criminal Court has submited a list of 20 individuals known to have fuelled post-election violence in 2007 to Pre-Trial Chamber judges. The ICC prosecutor stated, "They utilized their personal, government, business, and tribal networks to commit the crimes". The Kenya National Human Rights Commission believes justice will . . .
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Inconvenience of the rushed birth certificate policy
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Author: George Nyongesa
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Date Written: 27 February 2010
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Primary Category:
Kenya
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Document Origin: Bunge la Mwananchi
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Secondary Category:
-none-
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Source URL:
http://www.bungelamwananchi.org
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Key Words: Kenya, birth certificate policy, statistics, inconvenience,
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Summary & Comment:
Registration for primary schools and secondary schools requires a birth certificate. This article describes the congestion, delay, and hardship endured to obtain documentation in Nairobi and at district registration offices and calls for local access.DN
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Kenya: The Church calls for local resolution
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Author: CISA, Nairobi
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Date Written: 19 February 2010
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Primary Category:
Kenya
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Document Origin: Catholic Information Service for Africa
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Secondary Category:
-none-
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Source URL:
http://www.cisanewsafrica.org/
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Key Words: Kenya, coalition, church, bishops, conflicts,
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Summary & Comment:
Kenya’s Catholic Bishops have called for home-grown solutions to Kenya's political problems. "We should avoid reaching out to the international community in the face of every crisis before exhausting internal conflict resolution mechanisms." This follows the impasse in government between the Prime Minister and the President. DH
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Kenya: Police brutality towards the Samburu
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Author: Cultural Survival
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Date Written: 11 February 2010
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Primary Category:
Kenya
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Document Origin: Cultural Survival
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Secondary Category:
-none-
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Source URL:
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/
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Key Words: Kenya, Samburu, disarmament, police, violations,
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Summary & Comment:
Police in northern Kenya have been using heavy-handed tactics to disarm the Samburu and their competing pastoralist tribes as part of a universal disarmament operation. Rape, beatings, burning, and theft accusations have been made against the police; and there is an appeal to the Kenyan government to withdraw the police. DH
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Kenya: Land expulsion condemned
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Author: CISA, Nairobi
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Date Written: 9 February 2010
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Primary Category:
Kenya
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Document Origin: Catholic Information Service for Africa
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Secondary Category:
Eastern Region
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Source URL:
http://www.cisanewsafrica.org
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Key Words: Kenya, government, Endurois, land, rights,
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Summary & Comment:
The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights condemns the land grab from the Endorois people by the Kenyan government. Violation of land rights remains one of the key unresolved issues in Kenya. DH
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