Month: March 2019
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Court rules Kenyan LGBT community can be registered
By JEMIMAH MUENI – The Lesbian and Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community can now go ahead and register their association as a rights group. This is after the Court of Appeal affirmed the High Court decision that directed the Non-Governmental Organisations Coordination Board to register the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) as an NGO. […]
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Gay witch-hunt sparks fear and panic in Tanzania’s LGBT+ community
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Gay and transgender people in Tanzania have gone into hiding fearing for their lives after a senior government official called on the public to report suspected homosexuals so that they could be arrested from early next week. Paul Makonda, regional commissioner for Tanzania’s main city of Dar es Salaam, announced […]
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Understanding Kenya grantee priorities, objectives and behaviours for effective Linking and Learning
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Understanding Tanzania grantee priorities, objectives and behaviours for effective Linking and Learning
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Applied research concerning inclusion of persons with disabilities in systems of social protection Social Protection Policy Analysis, Tanzania
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Disability in Kenya
The World Report on Disability estimates that 15 percent of the world population are people with disabilities. There may be some variance from one country to another. But experts believe that many countries significantly underestimate the actual prevalence rate. Disability in Kenya. The center of the Kenyan flag is displayed, which includes two spears crossed behind a […]
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Sanctuaries which Kenya’s senior citizens call home
In Summary According to Kenya’s 2009 census results, 2.8 per cent of Kenya’s population is above 65 years of age. Sixty per cent of orphans in Kenya are in the care of elderly people, Gacheru Maina, a HelpAge official, says. “In the next five years, it’s my hope that the government will have put in […]
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Indigenous peoples’ land rights in Tanzania and Kenya: the impact of strategic litigation and legal empowerment
MRG recently commissioned an evaluation of its litigation and legal empowerment programmes implemented with minorities and indigenous peoples in East Africa over the last 15 years. The evaluation found that these activities are powerful tools that create spaces and opportunities for communities to unite around shared struggles and make decisions that can impact positively on their collective rights. […]
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Faces of inequality campaign toolkit
The global Faces of Inequality Campaign aims to target inequalities in all its different forms – gender, income, wealth, geographical, environmental, abilities, political, ethnic, and other discriminations. Together we are supporting people in their struggles for justice and bringing people and organisations together to challenge the institutions and processes that perpetuate poverty and inequalities across […]
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The acquisition of kenyan sign language (KSL) and its significance as a mother tongue and meduim of instruction in schools for the deaf in kenya
This paper outlines the importance of KSL in the teaching of deaf learners in Kenya by examining the acquisition and use of KSL in the family, school and the Kenyan society at large. It, therefore, argues for early intervention policies that would enable deaf children to acquire KSL early and calls for the immediate adoption […]