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 OPINION: KENYAN MEDIA HOUSE BANS HATE SPEECH TARGETING LGBTI IN ADVERTS   OPINION: KENYAN MEDIA HOUSE BANS HATE SPEECH TARGETING LGBTI IN ADVERTS Election time is looming in Kenya and there is a sense of guardedness as the country moves from the dark past of post election violence in 2007 that resulted in the deaths of over 1,500 people. Melissa Wainaina Arcus Correspondent Kenya The upcoming election is also a litmus test of the new people-driven constitution that Kenyans came up with in 2010. The election will also mark the end of the incumbent president's second term of office and efforts are being made to ensure that the transition of power is peaceful, free and fair. In light of the sometimes adverse role sections of the media played at the last election, the move by the Nation Media Group (NMG, East and Central Africa's largest media house) to publish guidelines for political advertising comes as a pleasant surpris

KENYAN CLERGY, OPPOSE CALL BY NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TO LEGALISE HOMOSEXUALITY Members of the clergy and some human rights activists in Kenya have raised their objections to recommendations last week that homosexuality be de-criminalised in the East African country. The recommendations are proposed in a report on safeguarding sexual and reproductive health rights. The report, launched on Thursday, is as a result of a public inquiry that had been set up by the commission to examine the extent and nature of violations of the two rights. The Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHCR) on Thursday, May 3, 2012, called for the Kenya government to decriminalise homosexuality and prostitution in that country. In a report unveiled by the human rights watchdog, the commission proposed legalization of the vices after the gay and lesbian community in the country, together with those practising commercial sex works, had complained that they were being discriminated against. Accord

And no respect for the South African Constitution . By Melanie Nathan, May 13, 2012. Much publicity and outrage followed the recent comments made by Chief Patike Holomisa, pursuant to a submission by the House of Traditional Leaders to Parliament's Constitutional Review Committee, proposing the removal of the constitutional provision protecting individuals from being discriminated against on the basis of their sexual orientation. Chief Patekile Holomisa is  is an advocate  (lawyer) of the Supreme Court,  an  MP for the  ANC, a traditional leader, chairman of the joint Constitutional Review Committee and Chairman of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA); Founding member of PISA – parliamentary Institute. This is what he had said in the context of a review of LGBTI entrenched Constitutional rights:- "the ANC knows that the 'great majority' of South Africans do not want to promote or protect the rights of gays and lesbians." The

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Africa: Decisive Year for Global Fund AfricaFocus Bulletin May 9, 2012 (120509) (Reposted from sources cited below) Editor's Note "We write as global health groups, communities affected by HIV, TB, and Malaria, and researchers from around the world to urge you not to undermine the founding principle of a demand-driven Global Fund. We are united against proposals to set 'envelopes' or 'allocations' for each country, which would result in limited ambition, scaled back or skewed plans, and ultimately a failure to get ahead of death and new infections. Limiting ambition now will only cost more in the future - in lives and money." - civil society letter to Global Fund Board For a version of this Bulletin in html format, more suitable for printing, go to http://www.africafocus.org/docs12/gf1205.php , and click on "print this page." The Global Fund to Fights Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria provides about 20% of all internatio