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A Novel Approach in Herbal Quality Control Using Hyperspectral Imaging: Discriminating Between Sceletium tortuosum and Sceletium crassicaule
(john Wiley and sons Ltd, 2013)
Sceletium tortuosum is the most sought after species of the genus Sceletium and is commonly included in
commercial products for the treatment of psychiatric conditions and neurodegenerative diseases. However, this ...
The Role of Teaching Christian Religious Education to the Development of Critical Thinking Amongst Kenyan Secondary School Students in Kisumu East District, Kenya
(International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 2012)
Previous research has consistently reported that Kenyan students’ moral standing and general
conduct in the wider society reflects incompetence in critical thinking. The scenario in which
irrational behavior has dominated ...
Socio-economic development and resource redistribution as tools for conflict prevention and post-conflict peace building in fragile societies: A comparative analysis of Burundi and Rwanda
(Global Campus, 2017)
Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced a myriad of conflicts since the end of the Cold War. Many of these conflicts have lasted for long periods, leading to massive violations of human rights and creating general human suffering. ...
Sustainability of food systems: The role of legal and policy frameworks
(Global Campus, 2018)
The commodification of food is one of the many causes of food insecurity as it occasions
the inability of poor households to access the available food because of high prices and
dysfunctional markets. A change of approach ...
Africa and mena Region (2018)
(Brill Nijhoff, 2019-11-07)
Africa and mena regions continue to face natural hazard and extreme weather challenges that impact adversely on lives, livelihoods and developmental potentials. Hazard-related disasters include floods, droughts, pest/disease ...
The impact of the global financial crisis on the realisation of socio-economic rights in sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis based on the Millennium Development Goals framework and processes
(Global Campus, 2017)
The global financial crisis, which affected global trade and
investment, did not leave sub-Saharan Africa untouched. The region registered a
decline in economic growth in the period after the crisis and experienced ...
The Place of the “Minimum Core Approach” in the Realisation of the Entrenched Socio-Economic Rights in the 2010 Kenyan Constitution
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-10)
The high levels of poverty, inequality and socio-economic marginalisation that bedevilled Kenya for generations led to a struggle for a new constitutional dispensation, which culminated in the promulgation of a new, ...
Human rights and democratic governance in Kenya: A post-2007 appraisal
(PULP, 2015-08-21)
This publication is a collection of essays on human rights and democratic governance in Kenya in the period after the 2007 post-elections violence. After surviving the trauma of electoral violence, the country soon embarked ...
An argument for South Africa's accession to the optional protocol to the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights in the light of its importance and implications
(Ajol, 2014)
The universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all rights have been universally acclaimed since the drafting in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, despite the doctrine ...
The plight of the house-helps (domestic workers) in selected estates in Eastland’s area, Nairobi County, Kenya
(International Journal of Social Sciences, 2019)
In Kenya, households in the middle class suburbs have increasing involvement of house-helps who in most cases take care of household chores. Moreover house helps have borne the brunt of being among the least paid in the ...