The Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission of Kenya has released its report as mandated by TJRC Act number 6 of 2008.
The commission was tasked with investigating and analyzing gross human rights violations and other historical injustices in Kenya between December 12, 1963 and February 28, 2008 as part of the Agenda Four of the National Accord signed in 2008 by former President Mwai Kibaki and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
Women's right activist living in Canada, Flora Terah-Igoki is among 75 finalists selected for the 2013 RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrants Awards, presented by Canadian Immigrant Magazine.
The author of "They Never Killed My Spirit" relocated to Canada from Kenya in 2009 and has continued to champion against violence and bullying against women and children, working with organizations such as McGill University, York University, Stephen Lewis Foundation, Jean Sauve Foundation, Carlton University and Canadian Lawyers Abroad.
Former Electoral Commission of Kenya Chairman Samuel Kivuitu passed away on Monday night while undergoing treatment at the MP Shah hospital in Nairobi.
The men who was at the helm of the electoral body during the 2007 election had recently declared he was cured from esophagus cancer.
The 74-year-old career lawyer had hoped to be a poll observer in the forthcoming March 4th general election.
Condolences to the Family & Friends.
Photo Courtesy of Pambazuka.org
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Below is one of his last interviews before the untimely death
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Hon. Samuel Kivuitu was buried on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at his home in Wamuyu, Machakos County.
Tomorrow Kenya marks the 49th Madaraka Day; this is after
the British colonialist handed over the nation to its inhabitants on 1st
June 1963. Many Kenyans who had nationalistic ambitions and protested the rule
were violently suppressed. The struggle of this Kenyans and the later
generation of second liberation crusaders have made me embark on writing a list
of 50 Kenyans who make tomorrow a day to celebrate.
Here is the list of 50 remarkable Pre & Post Independence
and Second Liberation Kenyans
The legal expert with broad expertise in constitutional matters
was born in 1938 in Nairobi. Many Kenyans remember him as the chair of the Constitution
of Kenya Review commission (CKRC), a commission he led from 2000 to 2004. He’s the
current Director of Katiba Institute and a member of the advisory board of the
Asian Commission of Human Rights.
On 9th March
2012, Fiji Leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama announced that he would head a
five member Constitutional commission tasked to draft a new constitution for
Fiji.
He earned a BA (1961), MA (1990) and DCL (1992) degrees from
Oxford University. He was called to the English bar from Middle Temple in 1962 where
he was a barrister and received an LL.M from Harvard University in 1963.
Born in 1969, Meru County Mute is an accomplished lawyer,
poet and human rights activist who currently serves as a Commissioner of the
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR). Being visual impaired has never
shaken the lawyer whose area of expertise include governance, constitutionalism,
media and disability.
