The Kenyan Court of Appeal’s BBI Judgment – IV: The Place of Public Participation in Constitutional Amendments
This is the fourth blog post in the OxHRH Blog’s ongoing series about the Kenyan Court of Appeal’s landmark judgment in the BBI Appeals. For previous posts: Part One; Part...
The Kenyan Court of Appeal’s BBI Judgment – III: Presidential Immunity
[This is the third post in the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog’s coverage of the Kenyan Court of Appeal’s landmark judgment in the BBI Appeals. Parts One and Two are...
The Kenyan Court of Appeal’s BBI Judgment: Identifying the Basic Structure
[This is the second post in the OxHRH Blog’s ongoing series on the Kenyan Court of Appeal’s BBI Judgment. For Part One, see here.] Introduction Rarely do judges get to...
The Kenyan Court of Appeal’s BBI Judgment: Omnibus Bill or Separate Referenda Questions?
[Editor’s Note: On 20th August 2021, the Kenyan Court of Appeal delivered a landmark judgment in a set of consolidated cases known as “the BBI Appeals”. By a majority, the...
The Kenyan High Court’s BBI Judgment – II: Multiple versus Single Question Referendum
[Part II of this series discusses further issues in the Kenyan High Court’s landmark judgment in David Ndii v The Attorney-General (the “BBI judgment”). Part I can be found here.)...
The Kenyan High Court’s BBI Judgment – I: Constitutional Amendment through Popular Initiative
[On 13th May 2021, in David Ndii v Attorney-General, the High Court of Kenya struck down a set of proposed amendments to the Kenyan Constitution, popularly known as the “BBI...
Shaping the Future of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights at Work
Sexual and reproductive health rights are not normally thought of as materialising in the workplace, but there are a numerous hurdles at work to women’s enjoyment of sexual and reproductive...
Shaping the Future of Safe Childbirth
While maternal mortality rates have been decreasing, they have not been decreasing for all types of women. Women in poverty, women with disabilities, young women, women in rural communities and...
Shaping the Future of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights at School
Schools needs to be a place of safety for learners. Tragically, sexual and reproductive health rights can be violated at school. This episode of Shaping the Future of Reproductive Rights...
Shaping the Future of Abortion
It is estimated that 25 million unsafe abortions happen every year. This episode of Shaping the Future of Abortion explores the role of human rights law in advocating for women’s...
Shaping the Future – Strategies for Change
In 2015, the world committed itself in the Sustainable Development Goals to ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health rights in the next 15 years. Yet throughout the world,...
Matrimonial Property Rights in Kenya: The Long Road Ahead for Women’s Rights
Over the last decade, Kenya has taken some steps to promote fairness and secure women’s rights within the institution of marriage. The promulgation of the progressive 2010 Constitution and the...
