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AMKA Africa Justice Initiative (AMKA Africa), is an independent non-profit organization registered in Kenya. It works collaboratively with university legal clinics and grass root organisations to promote access to justice for the poor, the minority and marginalised groups in Kenya and the rest of Africa. AMKA Africa’s core programmes are: Access to Justice programme and Good Governance & Human Rights programme.
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- Women Economic Empowerment
- CFLI Project
Inua waresh na waless Kiuchumi
Businesses owned by womxn and gender minorities account for 49% of the Kenyan GDP. However, 85% of these businesses are unregistered and unlicensed. The same applies to self-help groups that bring together such womxn and gender minorities.
CFLI Project
Empowering and Influencing Change for Intersex, Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Refugees and Asylum Seekers' Registration and documentation rights in Kenya.
"Equal justice under law...it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists... It is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regards to economic status. "
- Justice Lewis Powell, Jr.
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Exuctive Director, Milka Wahu explains to Bus radio sauti ya Kajiado, some of the challenges intersex persons face in Kenya. She elaborates on the lack of legal Recognition, a factor that limits intersex persons from accessing job opportunities and other government services. This was during a gender sensitization training of law enforcers in Kajiado County.