Noted Kenyan Activist Launches Partnership Initiative

(New York, September 18, 2018) – The prominent Kenyan human rights activist Maina Kiai has joined Human Rights Watch to launch a new partnership initiative aimed at building alliances and engaging communities to promote human rights for all. With authoritarian populists gaining power and influence across the globe, social justice, the rule of law, and democratic values are under attack from leaders who tolerate no dissent. “Human Rights Watch recognizes that lasting change in the struggle for basic rights and dignity can best be achieved by more directly enlisting those most affected,” Kiai said.…

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