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The Status of Women’s Human Rights in Kenya and Strategies to Overcome Inequalities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Maria Nzomo
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This paper takes the position that the human rights of women are inalienable and an integral and indivisible part of universal human rights, which we define to include the right to full and equal participation of women with men, in the political civil, economic, social and cultural life at all levels. The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which is one of the International instruments that explicitly focuses on women’s human rights, is quite comprehensive in its coverage. Consisting of 30 articles, CEDAW covers women’s human rights in all aspects of their lives—political, economic, social and cultural rights.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , Summer 1994 , pp. 17 - 20
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1994 

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Maria Nzomo is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies at the University of Nairobi and chair of the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW).

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1. Kerr, Joanna, ed., Ours by Right: Women’s Rights as Human Rights, London: Zed Books, 1993, p. 6.Google Scholar

2. Daily Nation, 15 July and 17 July, 1991; cf. Standard, 21 July 1992; 14-15.

3. See for example, Nzomo, M., ed., Empowering Kenya Women: Forward Looking Strategies to 1997 and Beyond, Nairobi: NCSW Publication, 1993.Google Scholar

4. The trend in the post 1992 election period is characterized by the mushrooming of new women’s organizations, many of which are duplicating the mandate and objectives of already existing organizations. While at one level, such mushrooming of women’s organizations may be viewed as consistent with the democratic principle of freedom of association and the broadening of political space for women, at another level, this trend may contribute to the weakening of an already fragile women’s movement and the struggle for gender based opposition.