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	HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE IN KENYA 1978-2001.
		An investigative report into the Likoni-Kwale violence of August 1997, produced by the Kenya Human Rights Commission, for instance, established that the causes of the violence were essentially the politicization of the socioeconomic situation in the region by local politicians.
		Victims of human rights violations are thus left without judicial protection, the High Court having decided that it has no jurisdiction to enforce the human rights provisions of Chapter V of the Constitution, even though section 84 of the Constitution provides for redress before the High Court for violation of any of its provisions.
		According to human rights groups, the fact that the Provincial Administrators, the GSU, and the police were involved in the conflicts again implicated the state.
	web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v5/v5i1a1.htm (8008 words)

	Derechos Human Rights Links: Kenya
		European Parliament:Resolution on the violation of human rights in Kenya - 1997
		Human Rights Abuse in Kenya under Daniel arap Moi, 1978-2001 - 20001 article
		The Kenyan Human Rights Initiative - Cornell Univeristy.
	www.derechos.net /links/geo/africa/kenya.html (135 words)

	Uganda on the Internet
		Human Rights Watch - "Abducted and Abused: Renewed War in Northern Uganda"
		Human Rights Watch - "Not a Level Playing Field: Government Violations in the Lead-Up to the Election"
		Mount Elgon is a solitary extinct volcano on the border between Uganda and Kenya.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/uganda.html (135 words)

	Violation of human rights in Sudan - Deccan Herald
		Similarly, the human rights violations are occurring due to excesses committed by all the parties to the conflict and it would be appropriate for India to condemn, unequivocally, violation of international humanitarian law in Sudan.
		After a massive destruction of property and human lives on an unprecedented scale, the Bashir regime in Sudan and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) arrived at a ceasefire agreement during their talks held in Kenya in December 2003.
		Over the past 20 years Sudan was plagued by civil war between the northern region primarily inhabited by the Arabs of Islamic faith and the southern region populated by the black population that is predominantly Christian.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/aug102004/edst.asp (803 words)

	HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE IN KENYA 1978-2001.
		Victims of human rights violations are thus left without judicial protection, the High Court having decided that it has no jurisdiction to enforce the human rights provisions of Chapter V of the Constitution, even though section 84 of the Constitution provides for redress before the High Court for violation of any of its provisions.
		According to human rights groups, the fact that the Provincial Administrators, the GSU, and the police were involved in the conflicts again implicated the state.
		As was the case during the de jure one-party state rule, human rights violations by his administration have continued even after the post-1992 and 1997 multiparty elections.
	web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v5/v5i1a1.htm (8008 words)

	Human & Con. Rights, Uganda Index
		The Republic of Uganda is located west of Kenya, in eastern Africa.
		Guide to Law Online (from the Law Library of Congress)
		Uganda Page (from the African Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania)
	www.hrcr.org /national/t_z/Text/uganda.html (8008 words)

	The case for an African court of human rights
		The location of the court in Kenya would be significant, considering that the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights was adopted in Nairobi 24 years ago at the 16th Ordinary Session of the OAU (now African Union) Assembly of Heads of State and Government.
		This is important for the African scenario, where courts of law have sometimes abdicated their duty of acting as the protectors of human rights.
		This is the practice in the other regional human rights where human rights Courts may render a binding judgment, award damages to an injured party, and order that a breach of the instrument be remedied.
	www.eastandard.net /archives/cl/print/news.php?articleid=20917 (1047 words)

	Kenya - Amnesty International
		Kenya refused to vote for a UN resolution calling for the abolition of the death penalty during the 58th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights.
		AI delegates visited Kenya in February to conduct research, in March to launch AI’s report on violence against women in Kenya, in July/August to conduct a workshop with non-governmental organizations, and in November and December to conduct research on politically motivated human rights violations during the pre-election and election periods.
		Despite the prohibition of violence against women in international human rights law and within Kenya’s own Constitution and national legislation, it continued to be widespread and prevalent.
	web.amnesty.org /report2003/Ken-summary-eng (1047 words)

	Kenya - Amnesty International
		Kenya refused to vote for a UN resolution calling for the abolition of the death penalty during the 58th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights.
		AI delegates visited Kenya in February to conduct research, in March to launch AI’s report on violence against women in Kenya, in July/August to conduct a workshop with non-governmental organizations, and in November and December to conduct research on politically motivated human rights violations during the pre-election and election periods.
		Despite the prohibition of violence against women in international human rights law and within Kenya’s own Constitution and national legislation, it continued to be widespread and prevalent.
	web.amnesty.org /report2003/Ken-summary-eng (1640 words)

	Amnesty International 1998 Annual Report on Kenya (the Republic of)
		During a joint-research mission to Kenya in April, a delegation of three organizations -- Amnesty International, ARTICLE 19 and Human Rights Watch -- called Kenya "a powder keg waiting to explode" and warned the government to stop using "divide and rule" tactics that are likely to plunge the country deeper into violence.
		It also urged the authorities to ensure that all those in Kenya were allowed to exercise their basic human rights, including freedom of expression, association and assembly.
		In November Amnesty International published Kenya: Election monitors human rights brief.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar98/afr32.htm (1640 words)

	Kenya - Amnesty International
		Kenya refused to vote for a UN resolution calling for the abolition of the death penalty during the 58th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights.
		AI delegates visited Kenya in February to conduct research, in March to launch AI’s report on violence against women in Kenya, in July/August to conduct a workshop with non-governmental organizations, and in November and December to conduct research on politically motivated human rights violations during the pre-election and election periods.
		Despite the prohibition of violence against women in international human rights law and within Kenya’s own Constitution and national legislation, it continued to be widespread and prevalent.
	web.amnesty.org /report2003/Ken-summary-eng (1640 words)

	KENYA
		Since 1991, when aid to Kenya was suspended on economic and human rights grounds, donors have failed to sustain pressure for the respect of human rights, in large part due to the justification that the government had taken significant steps towards economic reform.
		Kenya's donors should use this opportunity to issue strong and unequivocal condemnation of recent events and to link all non-humanitarian aid to the Kenyan government's performance on good governance and human rights criteria.
		Although ethnicity has been crucial in the politics of the Kenyan state and was central to the violence, the clashes were deliberately instigated and manipulated by KANU politicians anxious to retain their hold on power in the face of mounting internal and external pressure for change in government.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1995/Kenya.htm (7662 words)

	IWRAW Home Page
		The International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) was organized in 1985 at the World Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya, to promote recognition of women’s human rights under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (the CEDAW Convention), a basic international human rights treaty.
		IWRAW now is the primary international nongovernmental organization that facilitates use of international human rights treaties to promote women’s human rights and rights within families.
		Assessing the Status of Women: A Guide to Reporting Under the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women
	iwraw.igc.org (300 words)

	Letter to President Obasanjo on Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Human Rights Watch, November 27, 2003)
		Human Rights Watch is also appealing to the Commonwealth Heads of Government to use its meetings with you to press for an end to impunity and for institutional human rights reforms in Nigeria.
		In view of your stated personal commitment to values of good governance and human rights, and in view of Nigeria’s importance and influence within the Commonwealth and within Africa, Nigeria has a critical role to play in ensuring that these issues are fully addressed.
		This high level post could act as a focal point for the Commonwealth’s human rights agenda, make country visits and public reports and recommendations to governments and, where necessary, refer country situations for further action by the Commonwealth’s political bodies.
	www.hrw.org /press/2003/11/nigeria-ltr112703.htm (300 words)

	KENYA
		Since 1991, when aid to Kenya was suspended on economic and human rights grounds, donors have failed to sustain pressure for the respect of human rights, in large part due to the justification that the government had taken significant steps towards economic reform.
		It charged that Klan members were present at a luncheon attended on May 25 by American and British businessmen and diplomats as well as opposition member Richard Leakey, a Kenyan of European origin.
		In November 1994, at a London investor's meeting, President Moi had publicly declared his government's commitment to ending corruption on the grounds that it had deterred new aid and investment to Kenya.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1995/Kenya.htm (7662 words)

	African Studies Center Kenya Page
		Various links to organizations that deals with human rights situtaion in Kenya
		Resources on human rights, government, news and general resources on Kenya
		The African Regional Centre for Computing (ARCC) is a registered non-profit, research organization whose main object is to promote the development and usage of computing and communications technologies in Africa with an initial focus on Kenya and its environs.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Country_Specific/Kenya.html (434 words)

	GlobalCircle portal I-J-K
		Kelly, Petra K. Petra Karin Kelly, 1982 Right Livlihood Award "...for forging and implementing a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, social justice and human rights."
		Book: The War on Islam, the Wisdom Fund - "$500 billion of unnecessary spending went to fight the bogey of Islamic fundamentalism" "exposes the hype about rogue states, Islamic terrorism and human rights used to justify the war on Islam"
		Kenya geography, demographics, economy, modern history to 1994
	globalcircle.net /00i-j-k.htm (2056 words)

	Kenya: Government must act now to stop spiral of violence
		Kenya: Abolition of the death penalty is essential for a Constitution that respects human rights
		Kenya: The impact of "anti-terrorism" operations on human rights.
		Amnesty International today is launching a report on the killings in early 1998 in Rift Valley Province, Kenya, in which more than 120 people were killed, thousands displaced and hundreds of homes destroyed.
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/kenya/document.do?id=FE56D41D083C1412802569000069344A (379 words)

	RWANDA
		Since 1991, when aid to Kenya was suspended on economic and human rights grounds, donors had failed to sustain pressure for the respect of human rights and made clear to the Kenyan government that aid would be restored as long as significant steps towards economic reform were maintained.
		The National Council of Churches of Kenya and the Catholic Church continued to assist the displaced population and to monitor ethnic persecution.
		The resumption of IMF aid in 1996 was expected to lead not only to the release of remaining frozen funds, but to pave the way for the resumption of aid to Kenya in the next year from bilateral donors, the World Bank and multilateral donors such as the European Union.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1997/WR97/AFRICA-04.htm (379 words)

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		Witness Kenya 1 Destroying Soweto The Burning Issue of Land Rights in Kenya.
		From "the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM, Maastricht) and the Centre for Human Rights of the University of M".
		From "canoe, rail, and hammock, through a land of kernels, coconuts, and cacao, with instructions for planting and development ".
	www.hiryu.de /?hiry_search=of (2842 words)

	BBC NEWS World Africa Country profiles Timeline: Kenya
		Evidence of some of the earliest human settlements has been found in Kenya, suggesting that it was the cradle of humanity from which descendents moved out to populate the world.
		International criticism of political arrests and human rights abuses.
		Kenya African national Union (Kanu) formed by Tom Mboya and Oginga Odinga.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1026884.stm (1105 words)

	New Page 1
		U.N COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS decided, in a recorded vote of 24 in favour and 17 against, with 10 abstentions, to postpone consideration of draft resolution (E/CN.4/2003/L.92) on human rights and sexual orientation until its sixtieth session.
		In favour (24): Algeria, Argentina, Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, India, Kenya, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Viet Nam, and Zimbabwe.
		As we cannot ask the gays in Syria if indeed they really have been threatened, we cannot present you with a concrete answer.
	www.gaymiddleeast.com /country/syria (534 words)

	Equinet Newsletter
		Research sponsored by the Department for International Development (UK) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations examines the relationship between HIV/AIDS and land rights in three Kenyan districts.
		Although many agencies have adopted policy development and clinical practice guidelines, the human resources necessary to carry out these policies towards actual reform are not yet in place.
		In Kenya, the real price for maize rose by 29% between 1982 and 1983 (23).
	equinetafrica.org /newsletter/index.php?...+and+participation+in+health (534 words)

	Rastafari links
		The right to basic human rights were not Guaranteed after the emancipation act went into effect in 1834 and the chance of former slaves to now live as free men and women in dignity and to develop a human potential to the fullest had to be fought tooth and nail against former slave masters.
		The list of martyrs for black liberation are many, and the struggle for complete freedom and self-determination have come in all shapes and forms.
		I know members of the 12 Tribes of Israel; that I have come in contact with, one of the differences that I found is that 12 Tribes of Israel members will eat meat, for example, whereas most other Rastafarians are vegetarians.
	web.syr.edu /~affellem/Gad.html (4456 words)

	Open Directory - Regional: Africa: Kenya: Society and Culture: Politics
		Playing With Fire - Weapons Proliferation, Political Violence, and Human Rights in Kenya -- report on the nexus between arms availability and ethnic attacks in Kenya.
		Elections in Kenya - Summary of Kenya's most recent elections.
		Kisumu Democracy Institute - Independent not-for-profit policy research initiative towards the elevation of Kisumu City Council as a prototype of effective governance in Kenya.
	dmoz.org /Regional/Africa/Kenya/Society_and_Culture/Politics (4456 words)

	Events
		The 1993 Democracy Awards were presented to: Han Dongfang, leader of the Beijing Workers Autonomous Federation; Vesna Pesic, director of the Center for Anti-War Action in Belgrade; and Gitobu Imanyaram, human rights lawyer and editor of the Nairobi Weekly in Kenya.
		Repeatedly arrested and harassed, he has unceasingly protested against the erosion of rights guaranteed in the Kenyan constitution, a document modeled on the U.S. constitution and drafted with the help of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
		Imanyara is currently the Secretary General of the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy - Kenya.
	www.ned.org /events/demaward/demaward1993.html (4456 words)

	African Studies Center Kenya Page
		Resources on human rights, government, news and general resources on Kenya
		The African Regional Centre for Computing (ARCC) is a registered non-profit, research organization whose main object is to promote the development and usage of computing and communications technologies in Africa with an initial focus on Kenya and its environs.
		This is a senior thesis on research conducted in Nairobi, Kenya exploring appopriations of hip-hop culture by Nairobi youth and compared with aprropriations of hip-hop on Internet newsgroups
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Country_Specific/Kenya.html (434 words)

	Silenced - Kenya
		Kenya’s new anti-terrorism bill recently prompted an outcry by Muslims, the main opposition party, human rights lawyers and activists who say that the Suppression of Terrorism Bill, published in the Government Gazette on 3 July 2003, is ‘repressive’ and ‘draconian’.
		Terror attacks in Kenya in 1998 and 2002, compounded by the global anti-terrorism campaign has, however, initiated a new set of events that could prove a setback to the country’s transition.
		The national operator, Telkom Kenya, has a monopoly for telecommunications services but plans for privatisation are in progress.
	www.privacyinternational.org /article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-103568 (434 words)

	African Studies Center Africa: Human Rights
		The Kenyan Human Rights Initiative (KHRI) is a network of worldwide volunteers promoting awareness of the political and human rights situation in Kenya.
		African Rights is an organization dedicated to working on issues of grave human rights abuses, conflict, famine and civil reconstruction in Africa.
		CAMAS is a human-rights organization that brings together abolitionists and human rights activists from all races, creeds, and nationalities to collectively fight for the eradication of the chattel enslavement of black Africans.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/About_African/ww_hwr.html (434 words)

	allAfrica.com: Kenya
		The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights is seeking more funds from the Government, saying its shoestring budget is a constraint.
		Kenya could be sitting on a goldmine but the country is exploiting its minerals haphazardly, a new report indicates.
		The Governments of Kenya and Sudan and the United Nations on Thursday signed an agreement for voluntary repatriation of Sudanese refugees in Kenya.
	allafrica.com /kenya (691 words)

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