Health and human rights groups have mobilized in Kenya to support patients who are unable to access medicines to combat drug-resistant tuberculosis. Fewer than half of the patients with this infectious disease receive proper treatment.
Posts Tagged “Kenya”
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The evolution of the case load of the East African Court of Justice also reminds us that those who seek to promote human rights through the legal process must sometimes look beyond traditional forums in order to seek justice.
Posted in: Africa, Rights & Justice
Topics: Burundi, Case Watch, East African Community, East African Court, Kampala bombings, Katalin Dobias, Kenya, litigation, Mount Elgon, rendition, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
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A landmark report by the UN Commissioner for Human Rights documents serious human rights abuses perpetrated against sexual and gender minorities worldwide. This is a positive step forward and a victory for LGBT activists who risk their lives fighting for human rights in every corner of the globe.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Brazil, Chile, David Scamell, El Salvador, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, law and health, LGBTI, public health, rape, sexual health and rights, Tonga, transgender, UN Human Rights Council, United States, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, violence against women
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Corruption is never good. But corruption in pretrial detention is especially insidious.
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Young people with disabilities in Africa continue to face enormous challenges. Twenty-three-year-old Seray Bangura from Sierra Leone is working to change this.
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The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) is less than a decade old, it but its first-ever ruling on a complaint affirmed principles that are crucial to eradicating statelessness and minimizing discrimination against vulnerable minorities.
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The ICC is likely here to stay. The same cannot be said for many other arms of the system of international justice, as governments aggressively push back against institutions and regional courts whose job is to deliver justice for victims of gross abuse.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East, Rights & Justice
Topics: African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights, Ban Ki-moon, European Court of Human Rights, extraordinary chambers in the courts of cambodia, high-level segment, ICC, International Criminal Court, international justice, James A. Goldston, Kenya, Ocampo Six, rule of law, Southern African Development Community, Teodoro Obiang, UN Human Rights Committee, UN treaty bodies
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In the small town of Malindi, Kenya, women who use drugs will never receive the services they deserve until the community listens to their needs.
Posted in: Africa, Education & Youth, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: citizenship, criminal justice, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, malaria, Malindi, needle exchange, police abuse, pregnancy, public health, sex workers, statelessness, Umra Omar, women
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A decision by an African regional children’s rights committee delivered on behalf of tens of thousands of children in Kenya who grow up without citizenship rights has set a new standard for tribunals both in Africa and around the world in the battle against statelessness.
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Kenya has launched its first National Cancer Control Strategy with hopes that it will reduce the incidence of cancer within the country and provide quality services and care for cancer patients and their families. This strategy could help pave the way for a much-needed national policy on palliative...