The East African (Nairobi)
12 May 2008
The National Ethnic and Race Relations Bill, 2008 demonstrates the extreme limitations of thinking within the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs about ethnicity. It also utterly fails to draw upon existing analysis and work with respect to equality and non-discrimination both in Kenya and elsewhere, where many legislative and policy models now exist.
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the ethnic relations bil as it stands doest help in the elimination of ethnic prejudice in kenya. ethnic bias can only be removed from within (the heart). when you create a law, people will be yearning to break it and this will only cause more divisions than healing.