Archive for September 19th, 2007
Kenya’s Maasai and Ogiek Communities to Gain From UN Declaration
Welcoming the General Assembly’s adoption of a declaration outlining the rights of the world’s estimated 370 million indigenous people, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for greater policies and programmes to tackle the poverty, discrimination and exclusion faced by indigenous children. UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman issued a statement praising UN Member [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )UN Secretary General Donates Award Money to another UN agency Helping Slum Dwellers in Kenya
Early last week, the office of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon anounced that the Secretary General will donate $100,000 he was awarded today by the Pony Chung Scholarship Foundation to help a United Nations agency working to better conditions in a slum in Kenya. The funds is equivalent to about Kshs. 6,900,000.00 at prevailing exchange [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )KENYA: Nairobi People’s Settlement Network Interview
Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
An overview of Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya, 30 January 2007.
NAIROBI, (IRIN In-Depth) – (September 2007) Formed in 2005 to act as an umbrella organisation for slum-based community groups around Nairobi, Kenya, the Nairobi People’s Settlement Network (NPSN) is at its core a human rights organisation concerned [...]
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