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Kenya:
Cabinet Backs Down On Bid to Drop Gender Rule
Nation, 29 August 2011
The Cabinet on Monday appeared to backtrack on its decision to drop the constitutional requirement to give women more seats in Parliament. Read more »
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Kenya:
Storm Rages Over Proposal to Drop Women Seats
Nation, 19 August 2011
The storm started by a Cabinet plan to drop a requirement that a third of elective posts be held by women raged on Friday, with their leaders vowing they would not budge an inch. Read more »
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Kenya:
Women Push for At Least 116 MP Seats
The Star, 19 August 2011
Women will today meet to plan ways of ensuring that at least 116 women get elected into the next Parliament. Read more »
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Kenya:
Plan to Increase Number of Seats
Nation, 19 August 2011
The number of MPs in the next Parliament could exceed the 349 provided for to satisfy the constitutional requirement for gender balance. Read more »
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Kenya:
30 Percent Women MPs Not Possible, Says Cabinet
The Star, 19 August 2011
Cabinet yesterday approved what will be the first amendment of the constitution which is just a year old after resolving one of its key tenets was impossible to achieve. Read more »
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Kenya:
Plan to Drop Women Seats From New Laws
Nation, 18 August 2011
The Cabinet wants the Constitution changed to remove the requirement that at least a third of MPs in the next Parliament be women. Read more »
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Kenya:
Cabinet Hits Deadlock Over Women's Seats Parliament
Nation, 16 August 2011
The Cabinet on Tuesday failed to agree on the formula of reserving a third of seats in the National Assembly for women. Read more »
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Kenya:
Rule On Gender Parity Can Be Met
The Star, 22 August 2011
So the Cabinet thinks that the requirement of no more than two-thirds of either gender in any elected body is "technically impossible to achieve under the current stipulation". Read more »
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Kenya:
Anti-Reformists in Cabinet Against Gender Parity
The Star, 22 August 2011
The Cabinet's decision to renege on the issue of the not more than two thirds principle of the same gender taking elective and public positions is a continuation of the… Read more »
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East Africa:
Quota Headache
East African, 20 August 2011
The suggestion by the Kenyan Cabinet to amend the constitution requirement that at least a third of MPs in the next parliament be women is likely to be interpreted as a retreat on… Read more »
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Kenya:
We Need Sober Debate On the Gender Clause
Nation, 19 August 2011
It was clear from the very beginning that implementation of the new Constitution would be a delicate process fraught with pitfalls and hurdles. Read more »