CBC task-force must address state of disability rights in schools
With the 49-member Presidential Working Party on Education Reform completing its public consultations this month, it is time to look at...
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- Nov 12
- 3 min
What difference could new Police Inspector General Japhet Koome make?
The fourth Police Inspector General of Kenya was sworn yesterday. As Japhet Koome assumes office, what might he find in his in-tray and...
- Oct 31
- 3 min
Weak oversight not a "few rogue officers" feeds police impunity
Suspected enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of foreign nationals over the last month has burst one of Kenya’s worst...
- Oct 17
- 3 min
Cabinet Secretaries must come with new and consistent policy options
Tomorrow is World Food Day. With 4.2 million Kenyans facing acute food insecurity and 24 drought-stricken counties there is very little...
- Oct 9
- 3 min
Legal literacy will decongest police stations and prisons
Next year marks the 50th anniversary of legal aid in Kenya. As the Interior Ministry and the Office of the Attorney General reinvent...
- Sep 17
- 2 min
The context just shifted, we must also
Anti-slavery campaigner Fredrick Douglas reminds us power concedes nothing in the absence of organised public demand by those most...
- Aug 19
- 3 min
Time for criminal justice reform?
Azimio la Umoja decision to petition last week’s election places another checkpoint on the Kenya Kwanza road towards a hustler nation....
- Jul 23
- 3 min
Incoming regime must step up and halt extra-judicial killings
The recent brutal killings of seven Nakuru women horrified the nation. Within weeks, police had arrested over a hundred youth and are now...
- Jun 17
- 3 min
Kenyans want the death penalty abolished
By Irũngũ Houghton and Maurice Oginga It’s been thirty-five years since the Kenyan state legally executed anyone for a capital offence...
- May 8
- 3 min
We all have the right not to be profiled, violated or killed
Two horrific murders over the last two weeks left many angry and depressed. As the law enforcement agencies prosecute these senseless...
- Apr 16
- 3 min
Terror guidelines will help State deal better with menace
Launched this week, new Inter-Agency Anti-Terrorism and Terrorism Financing Guidelines signify a new collaborative strategy by key law...
- Apr 2
- 3 min
Let's debate safe abortion and reproductive health
A policy storm is brewing at just the right time. Last week, women and youth activists took to Nairobi streets to stop the launch of the...