Kenya Environmental & Political News Weblog

• Political Will the Missing Link for MDGs

  Posted: March 23, 2010, 5:58 pm by Dosma

  By Chryso D’Angelo UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19, 2010 (IPS) – Despite numerous factors that threaten the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 – a global financial crisis, a food crisis, climate change, natural disasters – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said this week that his main concern is “political will”. Ban addressed U.N. member [...]

• Draft Policy offers new hope for Kenya IDPs

  Posted: March 19, 2010, 7:15 pm by Dosma

  Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN A view of the Eldoret IDP camp after the post election violence (file photo) NAIROBI, 19 March 2010 (IRIN) – Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Kenya are set to enjoy greater protection under a national policy that also aims to prevent future displacement and to fulfil the country’s obligations under international IDP [...]

• WHAT is the relationship between the eight MDGs and the ‘coming of age’ of Soccer on the African Continent?

  Posted: March 11, 2010, 10:10 am by Dosma

  For when the sounds of the ‘vuvuzela’ start blurring across four South African cities, MDG campaigners will also stand up to make a point in order to be heard. A few days ago, the clock chimed a 100 days left before the global curtain is raised on the first-ever World Cup on African soil and [...]

• International Womens Day 2010 : Chronology of Women’s Rights from Clara Zetkin to Angela Merkel

  Posted: March 8, 2010, 9:29 pm by Dosma

  The right to vote and hold a political office is a fairly recent development for women. Read a timeline charting the milestones in equal rights for women from Clara Zetkin to Angela Merkel. The first International Women’s Day was held in 1911 as a way to attract attention to the cause of gender equality. In [...]

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