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The Role of National Action Plans on Business Human Rights

National Action Plans  (NAPs) are basically an evolving policy strategy developed by a state to protect against adverse human rights impact by the business enterprise in conformity with the UN guiding principles on business and human rights. Naps if implemented,...

Business and Human Rights Issues Within the Tech Sector

  Human rights activities date back to the early years of national development across the globe and have served as standard tools for governments to coordinate and prioritise actions on a topic. Business and human rights are basically international human...

Africa’s Growth Prospects Bullish Despite Covid-19 Constraints and Debt Burdens

The African Development Bank (AFDB) has recently launched the 2021 Africa economic report and among the key things highlighted are the growth projections despite the covid -19 pandemic.  The road ahead for Africa especially on the impact of covid-19...

Most Kenyans state that they will be worse off financially if the spread of Covid-19 continues

The negative impact of Covid-19 on the country’s economy continues to be felt across the country in almost all households. It is said that nine out of ten Kenyans say that they will be worse off financially if the...

The Freedom of Expression and the Digital Environment in Eastern Africa

In 2015, Kenya accepted a wide range of recommendations including to specifically guarantee freedom of expression, associations, and peaceful assembly of journalists, activists, and participants in demonstrations in both law and practice. However, the right to freedom of peaceful...

Can the government and its citizens connect through the digital space?

By David Gitari. Peter Drucker once said “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old” The planet we live in today is evolving fast in technology, the urge to simplify and fasten operations in several industries...

How to spark a conversation that will effect change

By Brian Muchiri As a budding writer/content creator, I seek to entertain my readers and take their minds off the stress that they may be going through in their lives. I desire to provoke critical thinking  and introduce them to...

How I would use the digital skills learnt to promote governance issues in my community

By Peter Mmbando The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) has been conducting online training sessions, since August aimed at equipping young minds with digital skills to spark conversations and  promote governance issues in their communities. Here is a perspective of...

Social Media Fake News in times of the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Ernest Mwanzi Dictionary.com defines Fake News as false news stories, often of a sensational nature, created to be widely shared or distributed for the purpose of generating revenue, or promoting or discrediting a public figure, political movement, company, etc....

Blogger Dennis Owino held by Police for six hours without a reason

Blogger Dennis Owino, popularly known as @KinyanBoy was yesterday arrested and held for six hours without being told the reason for his arrest. Dennis was also not told of his accuser. While walking along Harambee Avenue around 1.00pm yesterday, Criminal...

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