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Maina Kiai is a lawyer and Kenyan human rights activist who currently serves as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. He took up his functions as Special Rapporteur on May 1, 2011, for an initial period of three years; he is currently serving his second three-year term.〔(United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights )〕 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.〔 == Education, Career & Awards == Kiai’s most prominent human rights work began in 1992, when he co-founded the unofficial Kenya Human Rights Commission. He served as the Commission’s executive director until September 1998.〔(International Commission of Jurists, Kenya Section )〕 Kiai then moved on to become Director of Amnesty International’s Africa Program (1999-2001) and the Africa Director of the International Human Rights Law Group (now Global Rights, 2001-2003)〔 before finally serving as Chairman of the official Kenya National Human Rights Commission from 2003 to 2008.〔(World Movement for Democracy )〕 From July 2010 to April 2011, Kiai was the Executive Director of the International Council on Human Rights Policy. He has also held research fellowships at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the TransAfrica Forum.〔 In addition to his work as UN Special Rapporteur, Kiai also currently serves as director of the local Kenyan NGO (InformAction ), which uses a multimedia approach – primarily video production – to help educate Kenyans about their human rights.〔〔(InformAction website )〕 He also writes a periodic column for the Daily Nation, Kenya’s largest daily-circulation newspaper.〔(Daily Nation, Sept. 3, 2013, "KIAI: Season of madness as ICC trials begin" )〕 In 2014, Freedom House awarded Kiai its Freedom Award, an acknowledgment begun in 1943 "to extol recipients’ invaluable contribution to the cause of freedom and democracy."〔(Freedom House )〕 Prior Freedom Award honorees include Chen Guangcheng, Aung San Suu Kyi, Vaclav Havel, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Medgar Evers, and Edward R. Murrow. Kiai is a lawyer by profession, trained at Nairobi and Harvard Universities.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maina Kiai」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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