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The Protection of dependent self-employed workers against sexual harassment within the work place under labour laws in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2021)
The world of work as we know it today is constantly evolving majorly due to the ever-expanding service sector. The moribund traditional employment structures that had once informed the backdrop of labour legislation can ...
Affirmative action laws and policies: Interrogating their effectiveness in the promotion of substantive gender-based equality in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2021)
The aim of this research is to determine why gender-based affirmative action laws and
policies seem not to yield desirable results in the public sector and to suggest necessary
legal reforms. This is to be done by ...
Opening a pandora’s box in investment arbitration: Redefining the murky boundaries of compensable indirect expropriation and non-compensable regulation
(Strathmore University, 2021)
The concept of expropriation has developed over the years to include not only the outright taking, but also regulations whose effect is tantamount to expropriation. This is referred to as indirect expropriation. As a result ...
An analysis of the efficacy of the EAC protocol on peace and security a case for institutional reforms
(Strathmore University, 2021)
Presence of peace and security are very important for the socio-economic and political
development of any region. In a bid to ensure that peace and security are effectively maintained and promoted in the East African ...
Supported Decision-Making: Assessing Kenya’s Legal Framework against the Benchmark of Article 12 of The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(Strathmore University, 2021)
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (The CRPD) is the authority on International Disability Law. Taking it as the benchmark, this paper seeks to assess the Kenyan Legal Framework on disability as ...
Romeo and Juliet laws: Protecting Kenya’s consenting adolescents
(Strathmore University, 2021)
The period leading up to the enactment of the Sexual Offences Act (hereafter SOA) were troubled times – particularly for women. As Hon. Njoki Ndung’u put it, the country was at war with sexual violence.Statistics at the ...
Assessing false allegations of rape in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2021)
The main objective of this research is to assess Kenya’s laws on rape and the impact of its inadequacies on the rights of accused persons. Lack of clarity in law on certain issues may perpetrate instances where innocent ...
Children’s digital human rights: Another glitch in the code
(Strathmore University, 2021)
This research study, guided by scholarly articles, institutional reports, and relevant legal
instruments, sought to understand what constitute digital human rights and uncover whether children possess these rights. An ...
Assessing Trokosi practice and the clash between cultural expression and human rights
(Strathmore University, 2021)
This article examines the conflict that can sometimes arise between cultural expression and human rights. In engaging cultural violations, this article analyses the kind of discourse facilitated by human rights today by ...
Are employees shielded from abuse of their rights in Kenya?
(Strathmore University, 2021)
Sexual harassment is a form of discrimination that is prohibited as it violates the laws of Kenya, one’s right to dignity and to work in an environment free from such a crime. This research sets out to examine the legal ...