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IG Koome missed a point on how officers should respond to crisis

State officers may not need to be popular, but they do need to be pre-occupied with how their services can be more rights based and public centred.

By Irungu Houghton 2024-04-20 18:50:00

IG Koome missed a point on how officers should respond to crisis

Guard your right to criticise and hold all state officers accountable

By Irungu Houghton 2024-04-12 21:30:00

The state must protect Senator Omtatah from constant attacks

Over the last year, he has faced several public attacks and raids on his office and home designed to intimidate him from his legislative and litigative duties as an opposition parliamentarian.

By Irungu Houghton 2024-04-06 05:19:19

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Unraveling the complexity of the Shakahola tragedy

Alongside a de-radicalisation and rehabilitation plan we urgently need new regulatory guidelines and programmes that pre-empt future occurrences.

By Irungu Houghton 2024-03-30 16:00:00

Unraveling the complexity of the Shakahola tragedy

Festering wound in health sector needs more than threats to heal

An acute health crisis has just boiled over, again. Unattended to, slow-burning issues in the governance of our health now threaten the right to health for millions.

By Irungu Houghton 2024-03-23 00:00:00

Festering wound in health sector needs more than threats to heal

We have Dr Chakava to thank for the rights and freedoms we enjoy

Dr Henry Miyinzi Chakava recently passed away after a life devoted to undermining state censorship and promoting the right to free expression.

By Irungu Houghton 2024-03-16 05:46:04

We have Dr Chakava to thank for the rights and freedoms we enjoy

Avoid all forms of victim shaming to protect all from gender violence

Sexual and gender-based violence is not normal. Our silence, jokes, or sense of denial must not license public acceptance. Femicidal behaviour is criminal, and it must stop.

By Irungu Houghton 2024-02-03 00:00:00

Avoid all forms of victim shaming to protect all from gender violence

Global justice system on trial as South Africa takes Israel to ICJ

What is the significance of the South Africa petition before the International Court of Justice (ICJ)? More importantly, can it bring the atrocities to an end?

By Irungu Houghton 2024-01-13 00:00:00

Global justice system on trial as South Africa takes Israel to ICJ

It might be time for a new song to raise awareness about Gaza

20,000 human beings, 70 per cent of them non-combatant women and children, lie dead under makeshift graves or below the rubble of homes and hospitals in Gaza.

By Irungu Houghton 2023-12-23 00:00:00

It might be time for a new song to raise awareness about Gaza

Massive global human rights violations

Silence normalises and is fertile soil for state and public apathy. Let us demand that the world remains focused on Sudan and Gaza. Let each of us record and post #StopTheWar 10-second videos.

By Irungu Houghton 2023-12-08 16:30:00

How our silence emboldens those that hurt people based on identity

It has become increasingly fashionable for leaders to associate their parents with the Mau Mau at veteran’s funerals. Family genealogies are re-historicised to downplay relatives.

By Irungu Houghton 2023-12-02 00:00:00

How our silence emboldens those that hurt people based on identity

Grand corruption and abuse of office killing bottom-up dream

Grand corruption and abuse of office remain the biggest threat to the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda and a second term.

By Irungu Houghton 2023-11-25 22:00:00

Grand corruption and abuse of office killing bottom-up dream

Beware push to pass bills that target people based on identity

These domestic interests and their foreign allies are dragging The Presidency into a high-stakes policy distraction that risks licensing horrific crimes and an international backlash.

By Irungu Houghton 2023-11-18 08:17:05