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80objective of the program was to encourage judicial officers toadopt international human rights principles when writingjudgments and making court decisions, especially in caseswhere women’s rights have been violated. This was throughtrainings. The association later developed a training manualfor the judicial officers and i was instrumental in itsdevelopment. I was quite resource full in the process and irelied a lot on my exposure/training on the internationalhuman rights instruments’ while at the centre.I later joined the Federation of women lawyers and wascharged with treaty monitoring and research, where myduties included monitoring and reporting on all the treatiesthat Kenya has ratified. In 2011 the organization presented aShadow report to the CEDAW committee which i had helpedprepare in collaboration with 11 women’s rightsorganizations in Kenya. Please see the link below for a copyof the reporthttp://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/docs/ngos/Joint_NGO_Report_for_the_I alsopresented an oral statement before the Committeehttp://www.unog.ch/80256EDD006B9C2E/(httpNewsByYear_en)/87AE2293CF804E37C125781B0051228F?. The Shadow report was instrumental in the Review sincethe Committee relied partly on it when developing some ofthe recommendations to the Government. Some of therecommendations have been so far been implemented by theGovernment e.g. the enactment of the FGM Act just tomention a few.For the past nine months of this year I worked at EqualityNOW as a coordinator of the Solidarity for African Women'sRights (SOAWR).A campaign for the ratification,domestication and implementation of the Protocol to theAfrican Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rightsof Women, where i coordinated campaign activities for fortymembers organizations drawn form twenty two Africancountries. During that period we managed to get threeratifications Cote D’Ivoire see the link below on press releaseI circulated,http://www.equalitynow.org/ru/node/1282 and Republic of
81Congo and the Republic of Guinea, see the link belowhttp://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/84184/print”“1. The course turned me from a mere business/comercial lawresearcher to a women's law scholar2. I am reseaching on pertinent issues as far as womenparticipation in commerce is concerned3. Contributed a chapter to a book entitled Katsande, R.K. etal. (2011). Awakening Potential: A Feminist PedagogicalApproach to Teaching and Research. In Tsanga, A.S &Stewart, J.E. (Eds.) Women and Law, Innovative approachesto teaching, research and Analysis. United Kingdom: WeaverPress”“Key consultant for the Commission for the Implementationof Constitution of Kenya, review Family Bills i.e MarriageBill Matrimonial Property Bill and Protection AgainstDomestic Violence Bill 2012 awaiting debate in Parliament,my expertise was sought based on the Masters backgroundon women's law that blended well with gender issues in termsof law reform. Developed the National Policy on theabandonment of FGM in Kenya and also developed GenderPolicy and Anti Sexual Harassment and GBV Policy forEgerton University. I have been involed in law reformactivities in South Sudan too under the aupies of ARDUSAID.Thirdly I have been engaged in lobby and advocacyactivities with our parliamentarians on the need for gendersensitive laws in my individual capacity as well as as theChairperson FIDA-Kenya. These are some of the selectedpublications among others: ,Gender Equality and the NewConstitution of Kenya: In the Constitution of Kenya:Contemporary Readings Edited by PLO Lumumba, M KMbondenyi and SO Odero 2011, LawAfrica Publishing KLtd, Towards Eliminating Sexual and Gender BasedViolence (SGBV): The need for compensation and protectionof SGBV Survivors. www.preventgbvafrica.org
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