Human Rights Lawyer
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The High Court has quashed an unlawful directive requiring refugees and asylum seekers to surrender their national passports or risk losing refugee status and expulsion.
Read more: kituochasheria.or.ke/high-co…
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Delighted to have this incredible occasion launching the @achpr_cadhp Study on impact of climate change on human rights, marking the culmination of years of intellectual investment and collaborative effort on a subject of special interest and immense importance.
Hon. Commissioner Solomon Dersso (@SolomonADersso) chairs the Panel and Launch of the Study on the Impact of Climate Change on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Africa at the ongoing #ACHPR89OS Watch the proceedings here: youtube.com/live/dMpzU8GVkYs…
#ClimateChange #AfricaHumanRights
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"Everybody in the human rights movement reveres Navi Pillay."
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⛔️In 1965, Ernesto “Che” Guevara traveled to Central Africa to take part in a revolutionary campaign in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The mission came just a few years after the assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba and during a period of intense political instability across the country.
⛔️Guevara believed the Congo could become a starting point for wider anti-colonial movements across Africa. He joined forces with Congolese fighters who were resisting the central government and foreign influence, hoping to help organize and train rebel forces along resistance revolutionary lines.
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💡How can countries restore constitutional order after military coups while laying the foundations for democratic governance?
Our report examines the constitutional texts adopted in Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali following recent coups, highlighting key trends, challenges and implications for democratic transitions: buff.ly/wHRhwIm
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'In Every Fifth Year': Harmonious Interpretation, the Electoral Cycle and the High Court's Judgment in Owiso v Attorney-General academia.edu/176099197/In_Ev… via @academia
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Zambia’s election aftermath: The ICJ and six partner organisations raise concern over court closures that denied access to justice, arbitrary detentions and threats against lawyers. They call for the protection of judicial independence and the rule of law. icj.org/joint-statement-atta…
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The UNSC cannot agree what to do next about Sudan. It is not good enough. Some recommendations here for the U.K. in our latest briefing: una.org.uk/publication/sudan…
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Happy International Day of Democracy.
#Democracy for me is people living in freedom, being involved in making decisions that affect their lives, and being equal under the law – no one is above it!
Where justice is accessible for everyone.
So pleased to join the very first episode of Global Order: Democracy in an Age of Crisis — @GeorgetownGHPP's new podcast hosted by @MMKavanagh, to discuss inequality, democracy and what it will take to build societies that leave no one behind.
Have a #DemocracyDay listen! 🎧 youtube.com/watch?v=jxyEX7N3…
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"The struggle is always armed because the colonialists and imperialists have already decided to use their arms against you." - Amilcar Cabral, our people are our mountains ❤️💚🖤
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Amid the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam’s anniversary celebrations, Abiy Ahmed’s government plans three more Nile dams, and Cairo is threatening to block them
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30 years after 'Citizen and Subject,' Ibrahim Abdullah revisits Mahmood Mamdani’s landmark work through the African intellectual formation that shaped it—Dar es Salaam, Makerere, @CODESRIA & the East African Left.
🔗 journals.codesria.org/index.…
#CODESRIA #AfricanStudies
ALT CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 12, September 2026 'The Making of the Essential Mamdani: Reading Citizen and Subject After Three Decades' By Ibrahim Abdullah http://journals.codesria.org/index.php/codesriabulletin/article/view/6561
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"Slavery is not just a thing of the past. Its effects continue to be felt in systemic inequality and racism," notes UN Committee against Racial Discrimination.
CERD is calling on States to implement comprehensive restorative justice.
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#FightRacism
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Deepening our understanding of major historical events can help foster greater respect and tolerance.
Sunday’s #RememberSlavery Day is an opportunity to reflect on one of the darkest chapters in human history and learn from it.
More from @UNESCO: unesco.org/en/days/slave-tra…
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Are you on Substack?
Subscribe to our page for deep dives & insights from the #ecocidelaw movement!
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#StopEcocide
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ODPP and FIDA-Kenya Strengthen Partnership on Gender-Responsive Administration of Justice
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions today hosted a delegation from the Federation of Women Lawyers Kenya (FIDA-Kenya), led by its Executive Director, Ms. Sophie Kaibiria, for discussions aimed at strengthening cooperation in the administration of justice and advancing gender-responsive practices within the prosecution service.
The engagement focused, among other areas, on FIDA-Kenya’s planned gender audit of the ODPP. The audit will be undertaken across the ODPP offices in the country and is expected to provide an assessment of the extent to which gender considerations are integrated into the Office’s policies, structures, programmes and operations.
The exercise is intended to identify existing gaps and opportunities for strengthening gender equality and inclusivity within the institution. Its findings will also provide a basis for recommendations aimed at enhancing institutional practices and ensuring that the prosecution service continues to respond effectively to the diverse needs of women, men and other groups.
#HakiNaUsawa
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🚨 Exclusive: Manchester United and Brighton are closing in on a deal for midfielder Carlos Baleba.
United have made an offer of around £60million (€70m, $81m) plus £5m in add-ons which is felt to be below what Brighton would be seeking to sell.
Amicable talks continue with all parties working towards finding an agreement.
More from @David_Ornstein
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Within modern economic framework, debt is increasingly presented as an economic necessity rather than a political choice. This tendency has been especially visible in discussions of Africa’s political economy, where European dependence on African mineral wealth is often obscured beneath the language of equal exchange between sovereign states. Such arrangements compromise sovereignty through the maintenance of comprador elites and economic structures that privilege external interests. Political participation – both in the West and in many African states – thus, increasingly concerns consumption, preferences, and recognition rather than extraction, labour, ownership, and production. Citizens remain politically visible as consumers but increasingly invisible as producers.
Analysis: theelephant.info/analysis/20…
@nishantsbi @MKSerumaga @afrisagacity @DavidHundeyin @samirasawlani @NativeLandgrab @johngithongo @jkobuthi @Kalinaki @realoyungapala
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📢 Call for Applications
Are you a civil society or community-based organisation working on peacebuilding, transitional justice, reconciliation, human rights or governance?
@LPI_voices , together with @_CSVR and @_IJR_ , invites applications for the third cohort of the Capacity Strengthening Training on the African Union Transitional Justice Policy (AUTJP).
📍 Naivasha, Kenya | 📅 27–29 October 2026
🌍 For applicants from 9 countries across the Horn of Africa & Great Lakes
💰 All participation costs covered by LPI
⏰ Deadline: 30 August 2026
👉 Read the full Call for Applications here: life-peace.org/work-with-us/…
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Britain traded enslaved Africans for 245 years before abolishing the slave trade in 1807.
The United States legally imported enslaved Africans for 190 years and maintained slavery until 1865.
Neither Britain nor the United States deserves moral credit for ending systems they had built, expanded, defended, and profited from for centuries.
Ending a crime you created and sustained isn't heroism — it's the bare minimum.
Abolition was necessary, but it does not erase the responsibility for the suffering that came before it.
