Catholic body trains on human rights issues

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A Catholic body is currently involved in training Kenyan people on matters pertaining to violations of human rights. A press release from Franciscan International (FI) says is vital as Kenya like others in the world over has inclinations to violate the rights of people. The release of the press statement, coincided with the opening of a three-day training workshop for the first bunch of 45 Kenyans-religious women and lay people, held at the Franciscan Family Centre, Langata near Nairobi, between June 26-28).

The statement observed that FI in partnership with Edmund Rice International and Marists Foundation for International Solidarity, are currently organizing an in-country follow-up training. This is to promote the awareness of the UN human rights Universal Periodic Review (UPR), stresses the FI statement. The statement said Kenya was reviewed last May in Geneva by the UN on its human rights records. Commenting on the training workshop, Coordinator of FI in Kenya, Sister Venantius Munee, said her organization planned to train more and more Kenyan people on various issues pertaining to the rights of people. “This is the only way, they will be able to respond to the government’s performance on matters pertaining to the rights of her people,” she stressed.

She added that many a Kenyan people are not aware that her country gets reviewed by the UN and that as Kenyan people had every right to know the outcome and where possible have a right to make comments on the raised issue. Brother Brian Bond, from the Edmund Rice organization told CISA in an interview during the training workshop that his organization felt honored to be involved in the exercise availing training on human rights matters among the Kenyan people.

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