Why does the media focus only on the misery of people with mental disabilities? Would it be too boring to find out that there are real, cost-effective solutions being implemented right now in Kenya?
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Posted in: Africa, Europe, Health, Media & Arts, Rights & Equality
Topics: CNN, Croatia, deinstitutionalization, intellectual disability, Judith Klein, Kenya, mental disabilities, mental health
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First a lawyer in the dock. Now a missing judge. The strange gets stranger at the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
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In Kenya, secret government edicts ensure that millions face discrimination when they try to secure access to nationality and basic rights. But a new case before the High Court in Mombasa is chipping away at the practice.
Posted in: Africa, Justice, Rights & Equality
Topics: citizenship, equality and citizenship, Kenya, Nubians, Sebastian Kohn, statelessness, vetting, video
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Like Sudan's Bashir before him, Libya's Qaddafi will now have to contend with a possible International Criminal Court investigation.
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In another unexpected detour at the Charles Taylor war-crimes trial, the Liberian president's own counsel faces disciplinary charges.
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Far from the theatrics of recent weeks, the mobile court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo points the way to enhanced delivery of international criminal justice.
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In an unprecedented decision, a court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has convicted four military officers on charges of rape and terrorism as crimes against humanity.
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Kenya can no longer stomach the unhealthy discourse of tribalism. Strong nationhood will be achieved only through celebrating our diversity and uniting despite differences.
Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability
Topics: internally displaced people, Kenya, Mugambi Kiai, tribalism
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Raped, robbed, and abandoned. But women from the village of Fizi still had the strength to come forward and tell their stories, culminating in the war-crimes conviction of the lead perpetrator.
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A U.S. organization plans to pay HIV-positive women in Kenya to use long-term birth control, claiming it is the only way to prevent transmission to children. Four experts respond.