NAIROBI, Kenya — A global group says a key African human rights body has determined Kenya illegally evicted an indigenous population to make way for a wildlife reserve.Minority Rights Group says African leaders endorsed that decision during their three-day summit that ended Tuesday.The group on Thursday said it was a landmark decision that sets a precedent for recognizing the land rights of indigenous people in Africa.
via African body: Kenya illegally evicted group – washingtonpost.com.
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Labour relations
60. (1) Every person has the right to fair labour practices.
(2) Every worker has the right to—
(a) fair remuneration;
(b) reasonable working conditions;
(c) form, join or participate in the activities and programmes of a
trade union; and
(d) go on strike.
What is to go on strike?
Definitions of strike on the Web:
deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon; “The teacher struck the child”; “the opponent refused to strike”; “The boxer struck the attacker dead”
affect: have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; “This child impressed me as unusually mature”; “This behavior struck me as odd”
hit: hit against; come into sudden contact with; “The car hit a tree”; “He struck the table with his elbow”
make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target; “The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939″; “We must strike the enemy’s oil fields”; “in the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2″
indicate (a certain time) by striking; “The clock struck midnight”; “Just when I entered, the clock struck”
hit: affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; “We were hit by really bad weather”; “He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager”; “The earthquake struck at midnight”
stop work in order to press demands; “The auto workers are striking for higher wages”; “The employees walked out when their demand for better benefits was not met”
fall: touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; “Light fell on her face”; “The sun shone on the fields”; “The light struck the golden necklace”; “A strange sound struck my ears”
come to: attain; “The horse finally struck a pace”
produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically; “The pianist strikes a middle C”; “strike `z’ on the keyboard”; “her comments struck a sour note”
cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp; “strike an arc”
fall upon: find unexpectedly; “the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb”; “she struck a goldmine”; “The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake”
produce by ignition or a blow; “strike fire from the flintstone”; “strike a match”
remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; “Please strike this remark from the record”; “scratch that remark”
hit: cause to experience suddenly; “Panic struck me”; “An interesting idea hit her”; “A thought came to me”; “The thought struck terror in our minds”; “They were struck with fear”
Maybe the constitution should define what strike is!!!!
Lest Kenyans get immersed in juvenile patriotism, basic facts need be highlighted. The US is the world’s sole political, economic and military superpower and will be so for the next 50 years at the minimum. Kenya’s GDP is about $19 billion, equal to the net worth of Michael Bloomberg, New York’s mayor, whilst US’s is $14 trillion! Our economy is less than 0.1 per cent of US.The IMF and the World Bank, the world’s multi-lateral finance and monetary institutions, are under the control of Washington and London. UN and its organs dance to Washington’s drum-beat. Standing up to Washington is pyrrhic chest-thumping. Zimbabwe was Africa’s bread basket with the best farms and roads in Africa and rich mineral resources.
Nominated MP Rachael Shebesh said on Tuesday that the Ministry of Planning had accepted to include disaster risk reduction focusing on climate change in the ambitious plan.
“You know planning is everything. You cannot have a Vision 2030 that doesn’t incorporate the risk factor. What if we don’t have a good crop. What if we have locusts invading our farms, or any other disaster,” Ms Shebesh who is also the Chairperson of an Africa Parliamentarians Group on Climate Change posed.
She said inclusion of the disaster risk reduction strategy would allow Kenya to survive any disaster caused by climate change.
The legislator added that Kenya had been selected as one of the five African countries that would present the continent’s agenda at the high level climate change meeting to be held in Copenhagen in December.
via .: Capital News :..
Bonn, Germany
30 March 2009
IPACC delegates from Mali and Chad have come to Bonn to follow up on the UN’s climate negotations. Indigenous peoples from Africa are trying to make their voices heard in the difficult and cumbersome forum. IPACC’s main point is that adaptation is a major issue for Africa. Most of the discussions at the UNFCCC have been about mitigation, emissions and the role of carbon markets. While these talks drag on, Africans are experiencing increasingly extreme weather conditions, not only droughts, but heavy rainfalls, flooding and related problems of diseases, food insecurity, loss of livestock and homes.
The UN reached a serious deadlock in the Poznan Conference of Parties in December 2009. The Bonn meeting in March / April is an important chance to undo the deadlock and move forward to an agreement for the Copenhagen COP at the end of the year. At the heart of the deadlock is the resistance by countries of the South and China to the slow commitments by Western states to fund adaptation and mitigation, and help protect the most vulnerable countries from the effects of climate change.
IPACC is a partner organisation to SHALIN Finland.
