Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Youth, constituencies, elections on Mar 4th, 2010
The First GPO Oulu, Oscar Kingara and Godwin Ogato Memorial Ceremony On Friday 5th March 2010
” Justice be our shield and defender. May we dwell in unity, peace and liberty” Kenya National Anthem
On 5th March 2009, two human rights crusaders, Mr. George Paul Oulu and Oscar Kingara of the Oscar Foundation and one innocent University of [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Youth, constituencies, elections on Nov 30th, 2009
Clarification by Cultural Survival: Ellen Lutz, Executive Director of Cultural Survival has
responded to Bilinda Straight’s earlier comments on their report in the following terms:
Given our shared commitment to the Samburu and other groups living in Northern Kenya,
I am deeply concerned that any antagonism — especially public — should emerge in our shared
determination to prevent terrible [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Youth, constituencies, elections on Nov 30th, 2009
Researchers on Northern Kenya severely contest the Cultural Survival Report
to the UN Human Rights Council on the Samburu: The truth will only be known
by an Independent Investigation into the Violence in Northern Kenya
Researchers actively working with Samburu, Turkana, Pokot and other populations adjacent to
Samburu on topics directly relevant to issues concerning violence, health, [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Uncategorized, Youth, constituencies, elections on Nov 28th, 2009
See http://blog.marsgroupkenya.org/?p=1595 for Human Rights Violations of the Samburu People by the Government of Kenya: A report to the United Nations Human Rights Council submitted on November 1, 2009 By Cultural Survival
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Uncategorized, Youth, constituencies, elections on Nov 27th, 2009
Observations on the State of Indigenous Human Rights in Light of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Kenya
Prepared for
United Nations Human Rights Council: Universal Periodic Review
November 1, 2009
Cultural Survival
Cultural Survival
Cultural Survival is an international indigenous rights organization with a global indigenous leadership and consultative status with ECOSOC. Cultural Survival, [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Youth, constituencies, elections on Mar 13th, 2009
The Kenya civil society in its various formations across the country has assessed the state of the nation in the wake of the brutal broad-day light gunning down of our members Oscar Kamau King’ara and John Paul Oulu (GPO) by people believed to be police officers on a mission to assassinate the two on Thursday [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Governance, Government, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Youth, elections on Mar 6th, 2009
MARCH 6, 2009.
Over the years, dating back to the pre-independence days and after, civil society activists have contributed tremendously to the liberation of Kenya, whether that liberation was from the colonial rule or the dark terror of one party state that was to engulf this country years later.
In fact, when politics got confined to those [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Government, Judiciary, Laws, Mars Group, Parliament, Publications, Youth, elections on Mar 6th, 2009
PRESS RELEASE
NEW YORK, 5 March 2009, 6.30 pm:
The shocking assassination in Nairobi today of two prominent Kenyan human rights defenders must be independently investigated, according to the UN’s Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, Professor Philip Alston.
At approximately 6.00 pm in Nairobi on 5 March, gunmen killed two members of the Oscar Foundation Free Legal Aid [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Publications, Youth, constituencies on Mar 6th, 2009
This evening, two leading human rights defenders, Mr. Oscar Kamau King’ara and Mr. John Paul Oulu (also known as GPO), both of Oscar Foundation, were executed in cold blood by a group of men in two vehicles. The two were driving to meet Mr. Kamanda Mucheke of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights at [...]
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