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Maina Kiai

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Rwanda Gets Free Pass at African Court

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By Maina Kiai
| AllAfrica
In January 2014, I was invited to visit Rwanda in my capacity as the UN special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. I was struck by the amount of distrust among the wide range of people I met, especially within civil society. Rarely would anyone speak their minds when in meetings with several people.
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Rwanda gets free pass at African Court

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By Maina Kiai
| African Arguments Verified
Judges in Arusha had an opportunity to stand up for Rwandans’ freedoms of association. They didn’t take it. Credit: African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Arushua, Tanzania. In January 2014, I was invited to visit Rwanda in my capacity as the UN special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. I was struck by the amount of distrust among the wide range of people I met, especially within civil society.
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Mapping trends to understand shifts in human rights funding

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By Anna Koob, Sarah Tansey, Rona Peligal, Maina Kiai
| OpenGlobalRights
Trends analysis allows human rights activists to see where human rights funding is going, and where it’s not. But what further questions do these findings spark about the human rights movement?
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