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***Elections/Post-Election Crisis in Kenya 2007-2008
- African Union -- New Partnership for Africa's Development: African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) on Kenya (2006) PDF format
The official report of the AU-NEPAD review on democracy, governance, economic growth, and poverty reduction in Kenya...in 2005-2006.
- AMANI Forum--The Great Lakes Parliamentary Forum of Peace (Nairobi, Kenya)
A regional organization of African parliamentarians which tries to monitor conflict resolution cases in the Eastern Africa and offer training, with national chapters in 7 countries. The site includes news and reports from workshops and meetings.
- Amnesty International on Kenya--Profile and Updates (Washington, DC and New
York)
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Article 19 on Kenya (London, UK)
- Awaaz. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya: Awaaz, 2004-
AWAAZ is affiliated to Eastern Action Club of Africa (EACA) and Asian Foundation.: an online quarterly magazine on South Asians in Kenya and East Africa. "...acts as a catalyst to record the history, and establish linkages with the Indian subcontinent and the South Asian Diaspora in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom."
- BBC News on Kenya (British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK)
- Kenya Coast Bibliography (2000), compiled by Jan Hoorweg -- Leiden, The Netherlands: African Studies Centre, Leiden University, 2007.
"The first version of this bibliography was published as a chapter in the Kenya Coast Handbook and covered the period up to 1996 (Hoorweg & Hekken 2000). The present digital version has been updated until the year 2000 and contains 1479 titles."
- Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative on Kenya, 1998-2005 -- plus, January 2008 update (New Delhi, India; London, UK; Accra, Ghana)
CHRI reports and excerpts from Kenyan news media. "The CHRI is a non-partisan independent international non-governmental organisation. Human rights education and advocacy are at the core of all CHRI's activities, and the aims and ends of its reports and investigations."
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The Constitution of Kenya on the Internet
- Country Profile: Kenya (2007) (United States, Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, Washington, DC) PDF format
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Danish Institute for International Studies, Department for Development Research. Formerly Centre for Development Studies.
(Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Elections/Post-Election Crisis in Kenya 2007-2008 (and 2002)
- Government of Kenya -- Portal Site (Nairobi)
- Kenya Human Rights Commission (Nairobi)
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Human Rights Watch on Kenya (New York & Washington, DC)
- HRW on Kenya: Press releases, letters, reports, etc.
- "Letting them fail: government neglect and the right to education for children affected by AIDS" (October 2005)
Human Rights Watch report. (Online) ; vol. 17, no. 13 (A)
- "Double standards: Women's property rights violations in Kenya" (March 2004) Plus, supplementary material.
- Kenya, 2002. In Human Rights Watch World Report 2003. (Online).
- "Kenya's unfinished democracy: a human rights agenda for the new government."
(December 2002) Human Rights Watch report. (Online) ; vol. 14, no. 10 (A)
- Hidden in plain view: refugees living without protection in Nairobi and Kampala. --
New York : HRW, 2002. ("November 2002")
- Playing with fire: weapons proliferation, political violence, and human rights in Kenya.
-- New York : HRW, 2002. ("May 2002")
- Kenya, 2001. In Human Rights Watch World Report 2002. (Online).
- Kenya, 2000. In Human Rights Watch World Report 2001. (Online).
- Kenya, 1999. In Human Rights Watch World Report 2000. (Online).
- "Kenya: in the shadow of death -- HIV/AIDS and children's rights in Kenya."
Human Rights Watch. (Online); vol. 13, no. 4(A) (June 2001)
- "Kenya: Spare the Child: Corporal Punishment in Kenyan Schools."
Human Rights Watch (Online) ; vol. 11, no. 6(A) (September 1999)
- Kenya, 1998-99. In Human Rights Watch World Report 1999.
(Online).
- Kenya, 1997-98. In Human Rights Watch World Report 1998.
(Online).
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Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre: Internally displaced persons
in Kenya (2006--) Norwegian Refugee Council (IDMC, Geneva, Switzerland)
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Kenya National Archives (Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service, Nairobi,
Kenya)
General information, lists of services, news about activities and publications, guides to the collections and -- under construction: searchable
databases.
- Kenya Web Page (University of
Pennsylvania)
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Kenya Web Site (Rich C. Bowen, Lexington, Kentucky)
A web site with links to general information on Kenya, including the 1992 Constitution, a Kenya newsgroup, and Internet Service Providers in
Kenya.
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Kenyan Community Abroad (Washington, DC)
News, policy discussions, conference papers, and general information about the organization which claims to be open to all Kenyans abroad.
"[Founded in March 1997] KCA is a sociopolitical, non-partisan organization [registered in the states of Minnesota and Pennsylvania]."
- "Kibaki's triumph: the Kenyan general election of December
2002." (June 2003) By David W. Throup. Elections in Africa series, briefing paper ; no. 3. -- London, UK: Chatham House--The Royal
Institute of International Affairs, Africa Programme, 2003. (PDF format)
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Lawafrica.Com (Lawtel Africa, Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya)
A website which offers news and documents, directory information, a subscription-based, online legal library, and related links on law in Kenya
and East Africa.
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Wangari Maathai -- 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
- The rise of a party-state in Kenya: from 'harambee!' to
'nyayo!'. By Jennifer A. Widner. -- Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press ; California Digital
Library eScholarship program, 2003 (1992).
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State House, Kenya -- Official Website (ikenya.ws, Science and Engineering Resource
Center, Nairobi, Kenya)
This is one of the main sources for official news and information from the Government of Mwai Kibaki; includes Budget speech and links to
ministries and an extensive archive of news summaries.
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United Nations Agencies on Kenya
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook: Kenya (2008)
- United States Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya (U.S. Department of State,
Washington, DC)
- United States. Department of State: Kenya Country Report on Human Rights Practices:
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United States Information Agency (Washington, DC)
- "Women's organizing abilities: two case studies of Kenya and
Malawi" by Mario I. Aguilar and Laurel Birch de Aguilar. (Organizing for Development--An International Institute, Washington, DC)
[Focus on northern Kenya and central Malawi]
- World Social Forum 2007, January 20-25, 2007 -- Nairobi, Kenya: Programme
See also: World Social Forum (São Paulo, Brazil)
The site features all information on this event, the programme, and related links to current and past events. "The 7th edition of the World Social Forum brings the world to Africa as activists, social movements, networks, coalitions and other progressive forces from Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, Europe and all corners of the African continent converge in Nairobi, Kenya for five days of cultural resistance and celebration."
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xkenya.com (Kimacia Consultants, Nairobi, Kenya)
A general Internet portal site, with links to information on Kenyan businesses, the Kenyan government, educational institutions, and other aspects
of Kenyan society; plus links of more general interest to Africa.
-- See especially: Government websites--The Ministries
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