MINUTES OF THE CCP MEETING HELD AT OXFAM OFFICES, SHELTER AFRIQUE HOUSE ON 13/06/08
MEMBERS PRESENT
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Matters Arising
1. CCP on KBC radio & KBC television
KBC radio and KBC television have agreed to host 4 people (2 for radio & 2 for TV) from CCP in an interactive programme. The following topics have been suggested [...]
MINUTES OF THE CCP MEETING HELD AT OXFAM OFFICES, SHELTER AFRIQUE HOUSE ON 06/06/08
MEMBERS PRESENT
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Matters Arising
1. CCP on KBC radio & KBC television
KBC radio and KBC television have agreed to host 4 people (2 for radio & 2 for TV) from CCP in an interactive programme. The following topics have been suggested for [...]
Source: African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF)
Date: 06 Jun 2008
Responding to crisis: Lessons from Kenya’s silent emergency
AMREF’s Deputy-Director General, Dr Florence Muli-Musiime has warned that emergency institutions, both local and international, risk misdirecting their humanitarian crisis response if they are not sensitive to community dynamics that are not always visible in times of upheaval. In [...]
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Date: 27 May 2008
OCHA Kenya Humanitarian Update vol. 21, 21-27 May 2008
HIGHLIGHTS
- Representative of the Secretary General emphasizes the need to ensure sustainability of the returns and resettlement process.
- Over two thirds of IDPs have left camps and 123 camps have closed since January.
- 84,752 [...]
Source: United Nations Human Rights Council
Date: 27 May 2008
UN Expert calls for renewed efforts to protect and assist Kenya’s internally displaced persons as essential to conflict resolution and peacebuilding
Nairobi and Geneva, 27 May 2008 – “At this crucial beginning of recovery, special efforts by the government, humanitarian agencies and the donors are essential if the [...]
KNCHR POSITION ON AMNESTY FOR ALLEGED PERPETRATORS OF POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE
I. Introduction
Recently, a debate in Kenya has raged regarding whether persons arrested in the wake of the post election violence should be prosecuted or granted amnesty. These persons comprise mainly youths from Rift Valley, Nyanza, Coast, Central and Nairobi Provinces who are alleged to have committed [...]
MINUTES OF THE CCP MEETING HELD AT OXFAM OFFICES, SHELTER AFRIQUE HOUSE ON 30/05/08
CORE GROUP MEMBERS PRESENT
1. Amb. Bethuel Kiplagat
2. George Wachira
OTHER MEMBERS PRESENT
Matters Arising
1. Amnesty
The government has declared its stand on this issue and wants to grant amnesty to criminals. These are extraneous times and a solution that is [...]
Kwani Trust, in partnership with the Coalition of Concerned Kenyan Writers (CKW) are pleased to announce the release of a new book, After the Vote; Dispatches from the Coalition of Concerned Kenyan writers on May 29, 2008
CKW are a coalition of the foremost writers, thinkers, philosophers and artists in the country, who came together in response [...]
Date: 28 May 2008
Kenya: Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #14 (FY 200
U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)
Note: The last fact sheet was dated May 7, 2008.
KEY DEVELOPMENTS
- The Government of Kenya (GOK) continues to facilitate the return of approximately 350,000 internally displaced [...]
Source: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Date: 19 May 2008
Kenya: Surgeons dissect lessons from post-election violence
Following Kenya’s December 2007 general elections, hospital staff had to face a massive, and unexpected, influx of victims of violence. Now, during a series of ICRC-organized workshops geared at peace-time emergencies, they are discussing the lessons learned. The ICRC’s [...]
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