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Published in: HomeThe dangers of a blanket ban: ‘hawalas’ in KenyaThe closure of Somali remittance firms in Kenya, as a direct response to Al-Shabaab, only means cutting off one of...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter Garissa, Kenya needs to break the cycleThe massacre at a university in Kenya should lead the government to a recognition that repressive and discriminatory...
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Published in: HomeKenya’s Security Law Act: freedom of expression and media freedomThe measures risk deterring journalists from covering terrorism-related topics and may have a significant effect on...
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Published in: HomeViolence and civil society on the Kenyan coastPessimism about the prospect of peaceful change was not shared by activists from the wide range of civil society...
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Published in: openSecurityKenya’s outlaw policeDevelopments in Kenya show what happens when “counter-terrorist” police and other security forces are not subject to...
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Published in: openSecurityNairobi's solution to terrorism: blame the Somalis
Last week’s crackdown on Somali refugees reads like a show of force by a government that desperately wants to hide...
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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...
