On 24 and 25 of March 2015 Fahamu participated in a meeting with the Siaya county health executives and other non state actors on health to discuss the ongoing process of developing the Siaya county health strategy in line with some key African Union instruments on health namely; The Abuja Call for Accelerated Action Towards Universal Access to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Services in Africa and The Africa Health Strategy 2007 – 2015.
This process will be finalised and the strategy launched in the next three month. We also participated in a Rheumatic Cardiac medical Camp organized by a SOTU platform member – the Malaika Foundation, the county health department Read More
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‘You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. Besides, it took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen!’
These famous words of Captain Thomas Noel Isidore Sankara, President of Read More
The Movement Building Forum was convened by Fahamu Africa aimed at creating consciousness amongst Zinduka participants to strengthen and nurture social movements in East Africa region. Fahamu is a pan-African organization whose vision is a world where people emancipate themselves from all forms of oppression. Fahamu exists to strengthen and nurture the movement for social justice in Africa through learning for change.
Molded on Tafakari (Reflections) setting, the Zinduka Festival movement building forum deliberated on movements in East Africa with focus on the struggles, shifts, frustrations and victories .The space brought together 30 participants (12 females: 18 males) including social justice activists, artistes, members of the business community, students, youth Read More
From 29-31 October 2014, Fahamu is holding an Adilisha (To educate) Study Dialogue in Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire. Fahamu will deepen the learning process of activists dealing with peace-building and conflict resolution for them to explore transitional justice mechanisms as they uniquely manifest themselves in Africa by examining their conceptual meaning and practical realities.
The Adilisha Study Dialogue will equip participants with the necessary analytical skills to understand the advocacy context so as to be able to develop strategies to strengthen African–based approaches to transitional justice. The dialogue will also focus on the root causes of Africa’s struggles to realise peace, conflict resolution and justice in four West African countries namely Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Read More
The Transitional Justice Tafakari Forum
Date: 6 October 2014 Time: 0900Hrs
Venue: Kampala
Theme: Towards a self sustaining Transitional Justice in Africa
Twitter #TransitionInAfrica and on live streaming at http://www.ustream.tv/broadcaster/19024495
Fahamu in its efforts to create spaces for dialogue and debate to amplify Africa-centred voices, perspectives and solutions has partnered with Refugee Law Project, a Uganda based organisation to organise a dialogical space for conversation and reflection on the complexities of the current transitional justice policies and processes in addressing the concerns of post-conflict societies in Africa.
The forum brings together representatives from the Civil Society, legal scholars/practitioners, researchers, anthropologists, economists, sociologists and activists working with communities that have been victims of collective violence from Burundi, Read More
Oxfam, Fahamu and the State of the Union Coalition (SOTU) have pleasure in inviting you to a breakfast celebrating the launch of the first country report under Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice project analysing the implementation in Kenya of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa.
Please save the date in your diary. Further information will follow shortly. Please contact Moreen Majiwa e-mail: [email protected] Tel: 0700932170 with any queries in the meantime. The event will be held on 30 September 2014 Villa at Rosa Kempinski, Chiromo Rd. Nairobi, Kenya from 8.00am to 11.30am.
The Community Immersion and Dialogue in Mwea Irrigation Scheme was the 2nd in a series of Monthly dialogues conducted under Fahamu’s Pan African Fellowship Programme(FPAP).The session took place from 26th -29th August 2014.
During the Immersion, fellows were able to gain in-depth understanding on the struggles by rice farmers in Mwea in their quest for food sovereignty.The experience sharing sessions on gains in their struggle was an eye opener for the fellows.
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This is part of a speech and a collection of pictures including pictures taken during the launch of Black History month at the United States International University in Kenya, where the speech was given. The speech was made by Prof. PLO Lumumba an associate Professor of Public Law.
He has lectured law at the University of Nairobi, the United States International University (Africa), Widener University USA (Summer School).
Fahamu took the opportunity during this launch to disseminate a 2013 report on Kenya’s compliance with African Union (AU) legal instruments, policy standards and decisions under the State of the Union (SOTU) Read More
Evelyn Mkite is a fellow based in Cheptais location in the Mt Elgon region in Bungoma County. Her activism work revolves around fighting against child labour in Cheptais with the intent of keeping children in school.In the Mt Elgon region there has been an upsurge of school dropping-out over the last couple of years.
This is as a result of a number contributing cocktail of factors such as the re-introduction of the ‘Shamba System’, armed conflict in the recent history of the region, poverty and cultural practices.
The Plantation Establishment for Livelihood Improvement Scheme (PELIS), better Read More