A Human Rights Defender's Perspective

http://www.princessprojectkenya.com/archived/legal/constitutional-sea-of-empowerement-by-bemih-k-luseka/ This is a link to a piece I did a while back. The gains in this document are remarkable. We cannot start cutting the bones and reshaping them as opposed to what we surely ought to be 'neck deep' doing, which is, sourcing for, creating and developing quality flesh to put on to the already designed constitutional bone frame.  

Courtesy of The Nation My condolences to the families of the victims of Monday’s petrol explosion tragedy, and further quick recoveries to the many who are still fighting for their lives in hospitals around the city. Many were still in bed – probably unemployed, others were roaming the streets – hoping to get something to do for the day, others had just come back from slaving in the industrial area factories/industries – having worked for more almost 14 hours with little or no pay, and sadly others were children preparing for or heading off to school – just resuming after having been home for a whole week following the week –long teachers strike, and going back to the same conditions that will probably ensure they struggle to make something of themselves. Gandhi said that a government worth its salt is one that cares for its most vulnerable. The continued spillage on to the streams and river that pass through the informal settlement, by the state corporation charged with ensuring that ...

Education is a fundamental human right and essential for the exercise of all other human rights. It promotes individual freedom and empowerment and yields important development benefits. The constitution of Kenya, 2010 prominently recognizes this right – Article 43 (1) (f). Section 3 of the Education Act tasks the Minister for Education with ensuring a development plan (policy) consistent with any national plan for economic and social development of Kenya. The Ministry of Education’s vision is ‘to provide, promote and co-ordinate lifelong education, training and research for Kenya’s sustainable development. To focus on priority areas within overall education goals……’ The Teachers Service Commission currently established under in the Constitution (Article 237) and the TSC Act whose Section 4 mandates the TSC to establish and maintain a teachers service adequate to the needs of public schools in Kenya, and for that purpose the Commission shall have power - (a)  to recruit and e...

Judge Nsereko (Appeals Chamber Presiding Judge - Government of Kenya Admissibility Challenge)  Once again Kenya’s rot was brought to the fore with the rejection and throwing out of the Appeal on admissibility, which was aimed at having the case against the six suspects dismissed, and affirming a decision of the Pre-trial Chamber on the admissibility challenge. Reading the ICC Appeals Chamber’s decision the Presiding Ugandan Judge Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko pointed out that Pre-trial’s chamber’s same person same conduct test was appropriate. He said that the Pre-trial chamber correctly decided that the cases against the suspects were admissible. The court said that the suspects’ conduct had not been investigated by the national jurisdiction and therefore there was no need to find the case inadmissible. There is however still a chance for each of the suspects to file their own fresh admissibility challenge, but my ‘palm reader’…… and my more learned and realistic gut feeling ...