Kenya: Abusive Evictions in Mau Forest

Expand This June 2019 photo shows Gorofa village, Nkoben area, one of the current settlements for those evicted from Mau forest in July 2018. HRW/Namwaya (Nairobi) – Authorities in Kenya have not investigated abuses by security officials during the forced evictions of thousands of people from Mau Forest in July 2018 and now are planning more evictions, Human Rights Watch said today. In August 2019, the government announced plans to evict another 60,000 people from the forest. The authorities should ensure that police officials do not use unlawful force, and should provide the residents with…

Read complete article

~	Palestinian writers have long explored the horrors of amputation

~	AI products for kids promising friendship and learning? 3 things to consider

~	How the nursing shortage is affecting the health-care system, patients and nurses themselves

~	This group rid one Australian river of its privet problem – and strengthened community along the way

~	Making merry: how we brought Melbourne’s Merri Creek back from pollution, neglect and weeds

~	Exploitation, brutality and misery: how the opium trade shaped the modern world

~	Terminal lucidity: why do loved ones with dementia sometimes ‘come back’ before death?

~	Australian artists only earn $23,200 a year from their art – and are key financial investors in keeping the industry afloat

~	Crisis of faith: why Australian women have so little trust in religious institutions

~	How the fast-track law could expose future NZ governments to expensive trade disputes