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Published in: HomeKenya's security vacuum is driving vigilantismThe withdrawl of the state has lead to a surge in vigilante violence.
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Published in: 50.50The Right’s ‘gender ideology’ menace rolls to AfricaSpanish group CitizenGo brings anti-trans ‘Free Speech Bus’ to Kenya, where the World Congress of Families is...
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Published in: 50.50The state-sanctioned erasure of queer stories in Africa must end nowMovies depicting LGBTIQ experiences have been banned in Kenya and South Africa – adding fuel to the dangerous...
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Published in: 50.50Teen Mom Tanzania: denied sex education, then criminalised for pregnancyPregnant teenagers face expulsion from school, arrests, even death. The backlash against sex education in Africa is...
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Published in: 50.50“We’re not just here to learn – we can lead too”: young women human rights defenders speak outYoung activists from four continents talk about their local struggles and what motivates them.
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Published in: HomeA view of the Kenyan electionsKenya’s violence cannot be regarded as isolated events unconnected to how society negotiates the terms on which it...
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Published in: 50.50Horn of Africa: there are no quick fixes in ‘countering violent extremism’An effective response to violence and harmful ideologies is important. But projects are failing to adequately engage...
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Published in: HomeParliaments and the defence of democracyNational legislatures too frequently pass legislation limiting freedom and democracy. To change this requires not...
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Published in: HomeWill counter-radicalisation policies take the heat off Somalis in Kenya?If Kenya’s new counter-radicalisation policies are to be successful, the first step must be in creating decent lives...
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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...
