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World Watch: Kenya

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | February 05, 2008 - 09:04

Disturbing news stories have been pouring out of this east African country since the start of the tribal unrest following the Dec. 27, 2007 presidential elections. To catch up on the recent events, see the New York Times’ Times Topics page for Kenya, which provides an overview of the situation and brings together recent archived news stories.

To learn more about Kenya, try Portals To The World from the Library of Congress, which includes a section on Kenyan Government, Politics, and Law. More legal information about Kenya can be found at GlobaLex and WorldLII, see in particular Researching Kenyan Law [GlobaLex] and WorldLII’s Kenya page.

The situation in Kenya raises various human rights concerns, which are summarized on the country pages at Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. To find out what human rights treaties apply to Kenya and how the country has followed up on its reporting obligations, see bayefsky.com.


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