Debt, taxes, repression fuelling youth protests in Kenya, activists warn
Kenya’s 2010 Constitution guarantees economic and social rights, but unemployment, the cost of living and inadequate public services continue to test the extent to which those rights are being realised.
The session, organised by Amnesty International, brought together David Ngira, an economic, social and cultural rights researcher for East and Southern Africa at Amnesty International; Juliet Wanjiru and Brian Omondi of the Social Justice Centre; Annet Nerima, programme manager for Inclusion and Political Justice at the Kenya Human Rights Commission; and Riva Jalipa, Amnesty International’s researcher and adviser on taxation and human rights.
They stressed that community-based human rights groups had for years been campaigning around police brutality, rising prices, poor public services and other social justice concerns.
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