I do not know much about Kenya so I tried to find a bit of information on the social and political reality and I discovered that the President of Kenya is Mwai Kibaki.

                                                      http://www.statehousekenya.go.ke/

 

 

After he was elected on December  2002, he was re-elected on December 2007 but his presidency has been questioned for election fraud. There were a lot of violence, a lot of people died and the Kenyan police has been accused of tortures and murders not justified.

In Kenya the human rights aren't  respected. For example, the death penalty has not been abolished yet, after the fighters of Somalia during on January 2007, Kenya closed its confines and it didn’t accept any political refugee who asked for asylum and also it locked humanitarian aid for Somalia but these actions are violations of international law!

As well as this, the sexual violation against women and children is one of the most frequent crime unfortunately. The average age of a young bride is 13 years, in some cases 10 years, because the government has not yet set a minimum age for marriage of women. These young girls are married to men much older than them and they are almost always slaves. Husbands have any right to legal representation for them and also have the right to beat their wives. Despite in the new constitution there are new rights for women, their conditions have not changed at all. They must cultivate the land but they can not become the owners because for the men of the tribe only a man can have material possessions of the family.

 

 

                                      http://www.amref.it/img_din/100826donne_turkana.jpg

 

What is more, there is a strict control by the government over the media, in addiction there are a lot of intimidation against journalists.
However in 2002 was born a National Commission of  human rights (KNCHR) to control the respect of human right in Kenya.

http://www.knchr.org/

http://www.amnesty.it/

 

And..... 

 

One of my friend say me in Skype yesterday that there is an confederation called Oxfam (Oxford Famine Relief Commitee for) composed by 17 non-governmental organizations who work with 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solution to poverty and injustice. Oxfam works with local communities for sustainable development to promote awareness campaigns all over the world who want to inform the public about the causes of poverty and injustice and work to resolve them by acting on those who have the power to change things. Awareness campaigns of Oxfam aim is to mobilize the media and the general public through demonstration projects with high impact and instant recognition….so I wanted to see in Internet more information about Oxfam and I finded this interesting video about Kenya:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeMgqa_pEzQ&feature=player_detailpage