Summary: The Kenya Stakeholders Coalition for the UPR (KSC-UPR) has submitted a report assessing the Government of Kenya's progress in implementing UPR recommendations.What is the UPR?The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a mechanism under which...
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[19 de octubre de 2011] - Con el objetivo de que la ablación femenina (MGF) desaparezca de Kenia, el Parlamento aprobó el pasado 7 de septiembre una ley que por primera vez la prohíbe expresamente. La norma entrará en...
[26 October 2011] - About 13.3 million people in the Horn of Africa—Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, and eastern Uganda—have been affected by a devastating drought. At this very moment, a mother is faced with the...
[30 September 2011] - The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child has published its first ever decision on a communication. In the decision, issued on 22 March 2011, on communication 002/2009 IHRDA and OSJI (on behalf of...
Summary: Kenya has become the latest African country to make female genital mutilation illegal. The practice is still widespread in Africa, despite African Union opposition[12 September 2011] - Kenya has become the latest African country to ban...
Summary: Aid workers warn that women and girls are increasingly vulnerable to violence either on their way to the camps or inside them, where many upon arrival settle in their outskirts, where security is never guaranteed. [DADAAB, 8 September 2011...
Summary: The worst drought in 60 years, and the subsequent food shortage and the increased price of food is pushing more and more children to the street to beg. [MARSABIT, 30 August 2011] - Derrick*, 12, has left home and now lives on the dusty...
Summary: Le nombre considérable de Somaliens fuyant la famine et la sécheresse en se réfugiant au Kenya voisin éclipse le fait que tout voyage commence par la rude décision de partir, dictée par des circonstances particulières et suivie de toute une...
Summary: This publication documents “best practice” examples pertaining to a number of child justice issues drawn from a wide variety of African countries, namely Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda including South Africa. Owner: Julia Sloth-...
