Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The Nairobi Law Monthly
Author: Kenya
Author: Daniel BranchPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300180640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
On December 12, 1963, people across Kenya joyfully celebrated independence from British colonial rule, anticipating a bright future of prosperity and social justice. As the nation approaches the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, however, the people's dream remains elusive. During its first five decades Kenya has experienced assassinations, riots, coup attempts, ethnic violence, and political corruption. The ranks of the disaffected, the unemployed, and the poor have multiplied. In this authoritative and insightful account of Kenya's history from 1963 to the present day, Daniel Branch sheds new light on the nation's struggles and the complicated causes behind them.Branch describes how Kenya constructed itself as a state and how ethnicity has proved a powerful force in national politics from the start, as have disorder and violence. He explores such divisive political issues as the needs of the landless poor, international relations with Britain and with the Cold War superpowers, and the direction of economic development. Tracing an escalation of government corruption over time, the author brings his discussion to the present, paying particular attention to the rigged election of 2007, the subsequent compromise government, and Kenya's prospects as a still-evolving independent state.
The Post-colonial Condition
Author: D. Pal S. AhluwaliaPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781560724858
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
AF Press Clips
Author: Human Rights in Development Yearbook 1998
Author: StokkePublisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004208186
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The eleventh in the series of yearbooks on Human Rights in Developing Countries, this volume marks a departure from previous editions and a new beginning. The Yearbook will now bear the title of Human Rights in Development, to reflect the fact that it will explore the role of human rights as an integral part of the development process. The new title is also an indication of the fact that the scope of the Yearbook has widened to include human rights topics and issues in the more developed parts of the world as well as in the developing countries covered hitherto. Moreover, human rights are themselves in development and the new Yearbook plans to keep track of standard-setting in the human rights field. Finally, the new title reflects the Yearbook's aim of engaging in more international and comparative studies on the one hand and in more focused local issues on the other. With the rapid spread of new information technology and improved local monitoring capacity in developing countries, there may be less of a need for the type of nation-level country studies the Yearbook performed in the past. Two themes cut across the series of articles contained in the current edition. One, human rights promotion, is explored in various ways; one article looks at the establishment of national human rights institutions as instruments of promotion; another analyses development interventions in terms of their impact on local populations, drawing on UN and World Bank experience; yet another argues the case for using aid in human rights promotion, exemplified by Dutch aid to Guatemala; a fourth investigates the policies of the EU and ASEAN in seeking to improve the human rights situation in Burma; and finally one article looks at the work of the ILO in standard-setting and implementation in the field of child labour. The other theme, local conflict, is addressed in two articles, one looking at local communities in Latin America caught between local customs and ideologically charged civil wars and the other investigating the tensions between centralized rule and local autonomy in Kenya, recently erupting into ethnic violence. The Human Rights in Development Yearbook is a joint project of the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen; the Danish Centre for Human Rights, Copenhagen; the Icelandic Human Rights Centre, Reykjavik; the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Vienna; the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, Utrecht; the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, Oslo; and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund.
Abdication of Responsibility
Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization)Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564320476
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The Risks of Knowledge
Author: David William CohenPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821415972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Risks of Knowledge minutely examines the multiple and unfinished investigations into the murder of Kenya's distinguished Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Robert Ouko, in February 1990. Public and international concern over Ouko's death led to renewed attention to the extent of governmental corruption the Moi era, and brought down the government of President Moi at the end of 2002.
Censorship
Author: Derek JonesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136798641
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 2950
Book Description
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Author: Law and Global Health
Author: Michael D. A. FreemanPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199688990
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Law and Global Health is the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series. It contains a broad range of articles from scholars and public health experts dicussing the interaction between law and public health in low-, middle- and high-income countries.