NAIROBI: PROF. NYONG'O IS BACK WATCH HIS WORDS TOMORROW AT 2:30

ODM Secretary General and Minister for Medical Services Hon. Prof. Anyang Nyong’o is scheduled to address a major press conference, Thursday 10/03/2011 at the Party Headquarters at the Orange House.
The Press Conference will be at 2.30.pm.

Kindly provide coverage.

Thanks and God Bless.

Philip Etale
Director or Communication - ODM

NAIROBI:PRESS RELEASE

On the 8th of March 2011, the Pre-Trial Chamber II of the ICC issued its decision on the Prosecutor’s application for a Summons for me to appear in the Hague on the 7th of April 2011.

My position vis-à-vis the ICC is properly reflected in my Press Release dated 15th December 2010 at the time I was named as a suspect.

For the sake of clarity, let me reiterate that I remain willing to co-operate and abide by all decisions that may be issued by the Judges of the ICC and undertake to comply with any and all conditions that may be required of me. My interest is, and always has been, that the rule of law shall prevail so that justice is done.

AMB. FRANCIS K. MUTHAURA, EGH
PERMANENT SECRETARY, SECRETARY TO THE
CABINET AND HEAD OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE

9TH MARCH, 2011

NAIROBI: GOVERNMENT STATEMENT ON THE SUMMON'S OF THE SIX OCAMPO SUSPECTS

The International Criminal Court has issued summons for 6 Kenyans to appear before The Pre - Trial Chamber of International Criminal Court on 7th April 2011 to answer to charges under the Rome Statute.

The Pre - Trial Chamber will hold a hearing to confirm the charges on which the prosecutor intends to seek trial. The Rome Statute gives the person for whom the summons have been issued and the state which has jurisdiction over such persons to challenge admissibility of the case or the jurisdiction of the Court. We would like to state as follows:

The Government will challenge the admissibility of the cases as well the jurisdiction of the court.
It should be noted that according to the Rome Statute indictment will only be issued after the charges have been confirmed by the Pre – Trial Chamber after the said hearing.

DATE at Nairobi this 9th day of March 2011

Hon. S. Amos Wako, EGH, E.B.S. FCIArb, S.C.M.P
ATTORNEY GENERAL

Hon. Prof. George Saitoti, EGH, M.P.,
MINISTER OF STATE FOR PROVINCIAL
ADMINISTRATION & INTERNAL SECURITY

Hon. Mutula Kilonzo, EGH, E.B.S, S.C
MINISTER FOR JUSTICE, NATIONAL COHESION
AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS
Kelvin Mwangi,
Nairobi.

NAIROBI: FORMER POLICE COMMISSIONER PROMISES TO RESPECT ICC SUMMONS

Former Police Commissioner Major General Hussein Ali who is on the Ocampo six list has promised to honour the ICC's summons next month.

Following yesterday's summons by the International Criminal Court for the six Kenyans suspected to be the masterminds of the 20008 post-election violence reactions on the same have began.
Former Police Commissioner Hussein Ali on Wednesday said he will honour summons to appear before judges at the International Criminal Court.Mr Ali, through his lawyer Evans Monari, said he will be at The Hague on April 7 as ordered."I have received instructions from my client and we are making arrangements to be at the court at 2.30pm on April 7," Mr Monari said.
Mr Ali has been accused of instructing police officers to allow members of the outlawed Mungiki militia to attack people deemed to supporters of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) in Nakuru and Naivasha at the height of the violence.
Mr Sang is on record saying that he will fully cooperate with the ICC following the summons."I will use that opportunity to prove my innocence in the court," said the radio presenter.Judges at the ICC's Pre-trial Chamber II on Tuesday ruled that there were grounds to show that Mr Ali, Mr Sang and four other prominent Kenyans were criminally liable for the post election violence that rocked the country in the aftermath to the disputed presidential election in 2007.
The others are Uhuru Kenyatta (Deputy Prime Minister), Francis Muthaura (Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of the Civil Service), William Ruto (Cabinet Minister currently suspended on an unrelated corruption case) and Henry Kosgey (Cabinet Minister currently suspended corruption and abuse of office case).

Kelvin Mwangi,
Nairobi.

NAIROBI: PRIME MINISTER RAU ROUNDTABLE WITH CIVIL SOCIETY

Tue, March 8, 2011 6:35:41 PM

THE PRIME MINISTER WILL TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, 9TH MARCH 2011 HOLD THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER’S ROUND TABLE MEETING WITH THE CIVIL SOCIETY AT THE KENYATTA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE. THE ROND TABLE WITH CIVIL SOCIETY WILL BE SIMILAR TO THAT WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN FORMAT AND ORGANISATION.

THE PM IS EXPECTED AT THE KICC AT 10 AM.

DENNIS ONYANGO.
NAIROBI

NAIROBI: IOM NEWS RELEASE ON THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

MIGRANT WOMEN NEED ACCESS TO DECENT AND SKILLED JOBS COMMENSURATE WITH THEIR EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Increased attention should be given to the situation of skilled migrant women for whom qualifications and education do not always translate into higher-skilled employment in destination countries, says the International Organization for Migration (IOM), as it marks International Women’s Day today.
Over the past decades, worldwide efforts to increase girls’ access to education have allowed an increased number of women to obtain secondary and tertiary education. This increased level of education amongst women accounts for the growing number of women migrating on their own to pursue study or career opportunities.
For some of them, especially the highly- skilled , leaving their country can be seen as the only way to access the high level jobs to which they aspire and for which they invested time and resources to be trained. For others, pushed to migrate for security or economic reasons, they hope their professional experience will help them integrate successfully into their new society.

However, the migration experience does not always live up to their expectations as many barriers remain when attempting to transfer skills from one country to another.
"Women tend to be under-represented in the most sought after professions by industrialized countries - IT, engineering, and business - and more concentrated in occupations that tend to be less easily transferrable because of national regulations, such as education, public administration and law. And so it is difficult to have their skills recognized in the host country labour market and to find employment matching their qualifications," explains IOM Deputy Director General Laura Thompson.
Besides the difficulty in obtaining recognition of their foreign credentials, migrant women face other obstacles including the lack of professional and social networks, ethnic and gender-based discrimination, and family responsibilities. As a result, women are often pushed to low or unskilled occupations considered "women’s work", such as elderly and child care or domestic service, which offer poor working conditions and low wages.
IOM’s forthcoming publication "Crushed Hopes: Underemployment and Deskilling in Skilled Migrant Women", gives voice to the plight of high skilled migrant women unable to translate their education and professional skills into decent work.
One of those women, whose accounting degree has not been recognized in her new country decided to go back to university and retrain while doing petty jobs to support her sons. "My profession was what I wanted to do since I was a little girl - a passion for which I worked a lot over the years. It is hard to think that all those efforts to study, excel and perfect my skills have come down to nothing," she says.
"The social and emotional toll on skilled women unable to exercise their profession should not be under-estimated," insists Laura Thompson.
Previous studies, corroborated by the forthcoming IOM publication, have shown that under-employed and de-skilled women are likely to suffer from demoralization, shame, depression, powerlessness, stress, intense frustration, unhappiness, anxiety as well as feeling invisible and trapped.
One woman migrant recounts: "I had always been very active and busy, making my own money so when I was stuck at home, had no job and was very dependant financially, I felt like a piece of my body had been cut off."
Generally, the more severely underemployed they are, the more likely they will be to experience several of these disorders.
Although migrant women represent 105 million international migrants, almost 50 per cent of the global international migrant population, and most are migrating in search of employment opportunities, they are still not offered the same opportunities as their male counter-parts and are, therefore, still often disproportionately affected by risks arising from mobility.
"The economic implications of de-skilling are also enormous. Failing to utilize the wealth of skills, experience and know-how migrant women bring with them is not only a missed opportunity for the economies of countries of destination, but for also for countries of origin," concludes Thompson. "It is, therefore, vital for governments to critically review some of the biases implicit in migration regulations. Only by applying a gender lens to those fundamental migration policies can we make sure women’s opportunities are maximized and their economic and social contributions are both facilitated and properly acknowledged."


Geneva, 8 March 2011.

IOM NAIROBI Church road, off raphta road

Kelvin Mwangi,

Nairobi.

NAIROBI: ARREST WARRANT OUT FOR COTU SECRETARY GENERAL

Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary General Francis Atwoli.A Nairobi sitting court has given an arrest warrant against the out-spoken trade unionist.

A Nairobi court has issued a warrant of arrest against Kenya's most known and top trade unionist after he failed to appear at a case.Mr Francis Atwoli, the secretary general of the Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) - the umbrella body representing workers' interests, did not show up at a contempt of court case on Monday.
In the case, Atwoli is accused of inciting workers in Kericho to strike despite a court order stopping the demonstration.Justice Jeanne Gacheche has ordered the police to arrest the trade union boss and present him in court.However, Mr Atwoli did not show up as he is said to be in Geneva attending a meeting by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
The explanation of Mr Atwoli's whereabouts was given in court by his lawyer T. J. Kajwang'.According to Mr Kajwang', his client (Atwoli) informed him of the meeting on February 28 and will only be back after March 25 when the meeting will be over. But this explanation did not satisfy Justice Gacheche.
The judge asked the lawyer whether the ILO meeting in Geneva is an emergency and convinced that the meeting was not an emergency, she directed the police to arrest Mr Atwoli and present him to her when the case will come up for hearing on March 28.
Mr Atwoli together with five officials of the Kenya Plantation and Agricultural Workers’ Union were taken to court by Kenya Tea Growers Association  for allegedly failing to obey a court order issued on October 14, 2010 stopping the tea workers in Kericho from participating in a strike.
However, despite this order Mr Atwoli is alleged to have held a meeting on October 18, 2010 at Sotik highlands, Kapchorua, Tinderet and Kericho Green Stadium urging the workers not to go back to work.This, the association says, is blatant disregard of a court order. And to preserve the integrity of the court it is imperative that it be given the permission to start contempt case against the union officials.
On his part Mr Atwoli says he never incited any worker to destroy company machines which were meant to replace human picking tea.He says the strike by union employees was constitutional and protected claiming that the union issued seven days’ notice of strike in accordance with provisions of law.

Kelvin Mwangi,
Nairobi.