Undaunted: Stories of Freedom in a Shackled Society (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789914402490)

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Undaunted: Stories of Freedom in a Shackled Society

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Undaunted: Stories of Freedom in a Shackled Society

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From his work in Turkana, Kitale, Kapenguria and Mombasa, Father Gabriel reminds us that true transformative change comes from the people themselves, from the bottom up. This is a challenge that the social justice/human rights practitioners must internalize and the sooner the better. The idea of being the "voice of the voiceless" must transform to facilitating, encouraging and giving space to those who suffer the indignities of injustice, violence, poverty and repression. Indeed, one of the most significant tasks for the human rights community is to devolve away from Nairobi in real, practical, and substantive ways.



Author: Gabriel Dolan
ISBN-10: 9914402496
ISBN-13: 9789914402490
Publisher: Daraja Press
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2021
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.43d
By Gabriel Dolan
By Gabriel Dolan
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Like the many liberation theologians in Latin America who fought against dictatorship in the 1980s, he had a vision of a people being free of poverty, violence, ignorance and oppression. After seeing the dire conditions in Turkana, he founded the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, which became an important vehicle through which the people of the region could voice their concerns. And so began a journey that would see Dolan not only become a thorn in the flesh of powerful Kenyan politicians but the country's elite clergy as well. The Catholic priest's human rights work in Kenya over the last 40 years, which almost got him killed, has now been captured in his book Undaunted: Stories of Freedom in a Shackled Society - a scathing indictment of Kenyan society and its political leaders.

Maina Kiai is a Kenyan lawyer and human rights activist who formerly served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association from May 1, 2011, to April 30, 2017. Since 2018, he has headed Human Rights Watch's Alliances and Partnerships program.Kiai is also active in human rights work in Kenya, where he has focused on combating corruption, supporting political reform, and fighting against impunity following post-election violence that engulfed Kenya in 2008.

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