Law Club Program Targets High School Students
Teddy Musiga, a law student at Moi University, Eldoret and CLEAR student intern has developed a legal awareness program for Kisumu students. For the past year, CLEAR has been visiting the law clubs of...
Kenya JusticeMaker Represents Young Girl in Defilement Case
Tuesday morning was an early start for CLEAR advocate Peter Onyango who set out for Oyugis, a small town south of Kisumu to represent a nine year-old girl in a defilement case referred to...
CLEAR-Kenya team reaches out to community at Judiciary Open-Day
This March, CLEAR-Kisumu was invited to attend Kisumu Law Courts’ second annual open-day. The team took this as a welcome sign that they are steadily gaining local recognition for their efforts. This year’s theme was...
“Beauty in the Line of Justice”, a poem by Dennis Okore
Lone cormorants arrow low to sip the water from the ‘eye’ of the stones on the beaches toned with black cotton sand-I have always thought sand is just white on the shores. The tree...
CLEAR holds a legal education & awareness training in Gwassi, Kenya
On a sunny Sunday morning, five members of the CLEAR- Kisumu team set off for Gwassi where they would be conducting a three-day legal education program. The team consisted of the CLEAR-Kisumu Resident Advocate,...
An update from our Kenyan JusticeMaker fellow, Joy Mdivo
Hey everyone, I have been pretty busy for a while, hence my silence, but I assure you, I shall try and be more communicative in the future. I have just finished a tour of...
2008 JusticeMaker fellow Joy Masinde featured in Kenyan newspaper
Prior to our 2008 JusticeMakers competition, Kenyan newspaper the Daily Nation published an article about one of our competition winners, Kenyan Magistrate Joy Masinde. The article, titled “She’s-Got-It Brenda Masinde”, provides terrific insight into Joy’s life prior to becoming...
Kenyan JusticeMaker delivers legal assistance to women prisoners
Last Thursday, Joy and the CLEAR team made one of their weekly visits to Lang’ata Women’s Prison in Nairobi. Many of these women prisoners are too poor to afford legal representation and not informed on their legal rights. They...
An Ode to the JusticeMakers
The 2008 JusticeMakers Competition may be over but…the global community is just coming to life. This nascent community has been sparked by amazing individuals, coming from all the corners of the globe, from Nepal...