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KENYA: Proposed Constitutional Amendment Sets Back Women’s Rights
By Susan Anyangu-Amu
NAIROBI - Lillian Mutuku, a 34-year-old mother of three, describes her home in Katine area, in Kenya’s Eastern province Tala, as a harsh place to live. The soil is poor, she says, the sun beats down mercilessly and vegetation is sparse.
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KENYA: New Bill to Improve State Witness Protection, If Passed
By Mary Kiio
NAIROBI - Kenyans affected by the violence that erupted after the country’s disputed presidential elections in 2007 may soon be able to speak out without fear. A new bill will offer better protection to state witnesses.
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KENYA: Documenting Sexual Violence
By Susan Anyangu-Amu
NAIROBI - The testimonies of women who survived sexual violence during post-election conflict in 2008 should be heard, say advocates. The magnitude of the crimes committed against women because of their gender must be recorded and prosecuted to prevent such violence from occurring again.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Africa Told 'Stop Playing the Victim'
By Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN - Critics of carbon trading, a strategy meant to combat global warming, say the buying and selling of carbon credits is being exploited.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Africa In the Global Carbon Trade
By Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN - Carbon trading, as promoted by the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), has become a key global strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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KENYA: Police Reform? Return To Sender, Say Rights Groups
By George Kebaso
NAIROBI - The top policeman accused of supporting Kenya's post-election violence, in which thousands were killed or raped because of their ethnicity, has been given a cushy job as head of the country’s postal service.
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US: Clinton Pledges Military Aid to Somalia and Other African Countries
By Daniel Volman*
WASHINGTON - On Aug. 6, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed in Kenya and pledged to provide more military aid and training to the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG).
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POLITICS: Clinton’s Africa Tour to Stress U.S. Commitments
By Daniel Volman*
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left yesterday on a seven-nation trip to Africa that has elicited an appeal from Human Rights Watch for her to put human rights at the top of her agenda. During her eleven-day trip, Clinton will visit Kenya, South Africa, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Liberia, and Cape Verde.
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KENYA: Govt Fails to Keep Word on Tribunals
By Danielle Kurtzleben
WASHINGTON - The Kenyan government has reneged on its commitments to call on independent, international tribunals to try perpetrators of 2007 post-election violence. This move is being criticised by Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York City-based organisation that advocates against human rights abuses.
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RIGHTS-KENYA: Justice Waits While Debate Rages Over Tribunal
By Joyce Mulama
NAIROBI - Kenya's cabinet is expected to meet Monday to review a bill establishing how the masterminds of the country's post-election violence will be punished.
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RIGHTS: Kenya Cannot Fail to Prosecute Extra-Judicial Killings
By Joyce Mulama
NAIROBI - When stock is taken of the Kenyan coalition government’s first year in office no marks will be awarded to its handling of extra-judicial killings in the country. Human rights activists claim that the police have murdered about 500 people in the past 16 months.
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KENYA: Words that Reshape a Country’s Identity
Kristin Palitza interviews BILLY KAHORA, editor of Kenyan journal Kwani?
DURBAN - The goal is ambitious: Kenya’s first literary journal, Kwani?, wants to bring new thinking to the country - and ultimately the continent - and reshape African identities. The journal aims to provoke, create, entertain and develop a literary community that isn’t afraid to question the status quo.
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RIGHTS-KENYA: Rethinking 'Return Home'
By Najum Mushtaq
NAIROBI - The most urgent test of the grand coalition in Kenya is resettlement of the estimated 350,000 or so people made homeless by the violence after the December 2007 elections. Launched in May, the government's Operation 'Return Home' has been riddled with flaws and many experts on internal displacement argue it has exacerbated the crisis rather than resolving it.
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