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Kenyan nationality law is regulated by the Constitution of Kenya, as amended; the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act, and its revisions; and various international agreements to which the country is a signatory. [1][2] These laws determine who is, or is eligible to be, a national of Kenya. [3] The legal means to acquire nationality, formal ...
v. t. e. The Constitution of Kenya is the supreme law of the Republic of Kenya. There have been three significant versions of the constitution, with the most recent redraft being enabled in 2010. The constitution was presented to the Attorney General of Kenya on 7 April 2010, officially published on 6 May 2010, and was subjected to a referendum ...
Ghent University (PhD) Profession. Lawyer. Positions. Founder, PLO Lumumba Fndn [1] Dean, School of Law, Kabarak University. Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba (born 17 July 1962) is a Kenyan lawyer and activist. [2] He is the director of the Kenya School of Law and served as the director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission from July 2010 to ...
As a result, the political tensions that had been present at previous Independence Conferences were absent at this final conference. [6] The Independence Conferences took place between September 25 and October 19, 1963 and the Independence Constitution was finally completed. [6] On December 12, 1963 Kenya officially declared its independence.
Legal status of persons. The right of return is a principle in international law which guarantees everyone's right of voluntary return to, or re-entry to, their country of origin or of citizenship. The right of return is part of the broader human rights concept of freedom of movement and is also related to the legal concept of nationality. [1]
Nationality law is the law of a sovereign state, and of each of its jurisdictions, that defines the legal manner in which a national identity is acquired and how it may be lost. In international law, the legal means to acquire nationality and formal membership in a nation are separated from the relationship between a national and the nation ...
2000 – Commission for Constitutional Reform of Kenya was set up by President Moi and Prof Yash Pal Ghai was installed as its chairman to spearhead Kenya's first major constitutional reform. 2005 – In November 2005, a constitutional referendum defeats government's proposed new constitution (see below). 2008 – In March 2008, the National ...
e. Human rights in Kenya internationally maintain a variety of mixed opinions; specifically, political freedoms are highlighted as being poor and homosexuality remains a crime. In the Freedom in the World index for 2017, Kenya held a rating of '4' for civil liberties and political freedoms, in which a scale of "1" (most free) to "7" (least free ...