Equal Times

29 May 2024

In the wake of privatisation scandals, it’s time to reclaim public education

The Privatisation in Education and Human Rights Consortium (PEHRC): “We need a narrative change. The privatisation of education is incompatible with equality.”Read the full article

Kenya's ambitious affordable housing project faces major legal obstacles as opposition grows

28 March 2024

Development

Kenya’s ambitious affordable housing project faces major legal obstacles as opposition grows

“A multi-faceted approach is necessary to address the housing needs of urban workers and the urban poor effectively.”Read the full article

27 September 2023

Human rights

‘Blood carbon’: why Indigenous peoples are paying the price for false solutions to the climate crisis

Martin Léna: “The solutions we seek to provide to the climate crisis must not and cannot be disconnected from social justice and human rights. Those who are most vulnerable to climate change, and who are also the least responsible for it, are equally threatened by the false solutions put forward which claim [...]Read the full article

In a landmark case, Kenyan tea workers continue to fight for damages from a Scottish tea giant over musculoskeletal injuries

28 April 2023

Labour

In a landmark case, Kenyan tea workers continue to fight for damages from a Scottish tea giant over musculoskeletal injuries

Between 2,500 and 3,000 workers have come together to file a case in Scotland against James Finlay Kenya, accusing the company of creating the terrible working conditions that have caused them life-limiting musculoskeletal injuries.Read the full article

6 April 2022

Environment

Staunching the plastics tide

Waste pickers call for their voices to be heard in negotiations for a global treaty on plastics that some compare to the Paris climate agreement.Read the full article

Why is there a global shortage of midwives and what needs to be done about it?

2 February 2022

Development

Why is there a global shortage of midwives and what needs to be done about it?

The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the cracks in global midwifery provisions.Read the full article

In the midst of the Covid crisis, Kenyan unions are attempting to tackle the climate emergency head on

13 October 2021

Environment

In the midst of the Covid crisis, Kenyan unions are attempting to tackle the climate emergency head on

“In creating green champions, our aim is to come up with environmental experts at the trade union level and to build the capacity for participation and in advocating for a just transition in Kenya.”Read the full article

Despite a landmark ruling, Kenya's Ogiek community are still fighting to return to their ancestral land

10 March 2021

Human rights

Despite a landmark ruling, Kenya’s Ogiek community are still fighting to return to their ancestral land

Almost four years after the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights recognised the Ogiek’s ancient title of the Mau Forest and ruled that they should be allowed to return there, the Kenyan government is yet to implement this [...]Read the full article

In Kenya, women bear the brunt as mechanisation wipes out tea sector jobs

17 February 2021

Development

In Kenya, women bear the brunt as mechanisation wipes out tea sector jobs

Since 2006, approximately 30,000 women have lost their jobs in large-scale, often multinational-owned, tea companies because of mechanisation.Read the full article

Can new trade rules help east Africa's cross-border women traders secure a decent livelihood?

28 February 2020

Development

Can new trade rules help east Africa’s cross-border women traders secure a decent livelihood?

“However much we preach about the AfCFTA, if those informal cross-border women cannot get their goods from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Lusaka in Zambia then there is no real cross-border trade.”Read the full article

“I won't give up,” says the Goldman Prize winner fighting to deliver justice to Kenya's lead poisoning victims

22 July 2019

Human rights

“I won’t give up,” says the Goldman Prize winner fighting to deliver justice to Kenya’s lead poisoning victims

It’s been five years since the closure of the plant but the soil is still toxic, the water is still poisoned, people are still getting sick and mothers are unable to carry their babies to full term.Read the full article

In Kenya, Alternative Rites of Passage are offering girls a life-saving alternative to ‘the cut'

9 October 2018

Development

In Kenya, Alternative Rites of Passage are offering girls a life-saving alternative to ‘the cut’

“My mother kept on telling me that I would not be a woman if I was not cut and that no man would marry me.”Read the full article

Kenya

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