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Published in: 50.50Is the success of M-Pesa ‘empowering’ Kenyan rural women?The popular mobile money transfer service, M-Pesa, appears to improve the everyday lives of rural women in Kenya....
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Published in: 50.50Why are women in Kenya still dying from unsafe abortions?Kenya’s Constitution permits access to safe abortion, yet Kenyan women still resort to unsafe methods of termination...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageEviter l’étranglement financier de la société civile au KenyaLe Kenya a présenté en octobre un projet de loi qui aurait plafonné le financement étranger des ONG et exigé que...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageIn Kenya, averting a move to strangle civil society with the financial nooseIn October Kenya introduced legislation capping foreign funding to NGOs and requiring that money be channeled...
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Published in: openSecurityNew technologies cannot substitute political will
New technologies have the capacity to both emancipate and control individuals and their choices. Our pre-occupation...
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Published in: 50.50"160 Girls": Making legal history in the fight against sexual violenceA landmark decision by the High Court in Kenya found that police inaction in dealing with rape cases brought by 160...
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Published in: HomeFighting the good fight? Making sense of the Nairobi Westgate massacre
Avoiding youth radicalization begs for deeper thinking about the way in which the west conceives of itself with...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageHuman rights in the vernacularThe road to greater ownership of human rights by emerging powers is a bumpy one. But it will lead to a more real,...
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Published in: openSecurityKenyatta in State House: what's next for Kenya and the ICC?
Kenyatta's election as president of Kenya could have important implications for the ICC process as well as Kenya's...
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Published in: HomeKenya 2013 elections: reflections on the Supreme Court ruling and the role of the judiciary in democratisationThe recent ruling by Kenya's Supreme Court of Kenyatta's presidential victory implies that democracy is taking root...
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Published in: HomePower, politics and public monuments in Nairobi, KenyaFor the Kenyan novelist, playwright and essayist, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, power through cultural subjugation was the...
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Published in: HomeKenya poll result reveals deep stress on democratic institutions
The reality is that the entire range of Kenya's democratic institutions is in crisis. The weight of the state was...
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Published in: HomeKenya, between hope and fear
The violent aftermath of Kenya's previous election is present in everyone's minds as Kenyans elect a successor to...
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Published in: HomeKenya’s elections: a make or break moment?
Critically, international election observers (including around 70 observers from the EU) must maintain a strong...
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Published in: openSecurityFive years on: identity and Kenya's post-election violence
As Kenyan citizens prepare to return to the polls in March this year, Valentina Baú looks at what made the Rift...
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Published in: 50.50Kenya: the women who stand to be counted
Women in Kenya's second largest slum, Korogocho, face forced evictions, domestic violence and rape as a weapon of...
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Published in: 50.50A constitutional challenge to systemic discrimination
In the first case of its kind in Africa, a suit has been filed against Kenyan police for systemic discrimination in...
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Published in: HomeUS election: a Kenyan perspective
Kenyans look up to Barack Obama, whom they consider to be their most prominent "son" - but his first four years in...
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Published in: openSecurityMaking sense of political-related violence in Kenya
Recent violence in Kenya is cause for great concern as we approach elections in March 2013. A history of political...
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Published in: openSecurityMasters of manipulation: how the Kenyan government is paving the way for non-cooperation with the ICC
A policy of non-cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) will leave the victims of 2007/8...
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Published in: TransformationThirty articles on nonviolent protest
