Kenya: Possibility of Arabs and Muslims joining the KANU party
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 August 1991 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | KEN9138 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Kenya: Possibility of Arabs and Muslims joining the KANU party, 1 August 1991, KEN9138, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6aadc4f.html [accessed 7 June 2023] |
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religious groups, Moslems; political parties;
political participation; ethnic
discrimination; Kenya
Information on restrictions for membership in the KANU party
based on ethnic or religious grounds could not be found among the
sources currently available to the IRBDC.
As indicated in the Response to your Information Request No.
9136, a representative from the New York-based Lawyers' Committee
for Human Rights stated in a telephone interview with the IRBDC
that Arabs and Muslims are not known to be subject to specific
forms of discrimination in Kenya (6 August 1991). The source
added that although Somalis who may be Muslims have recently been
the subject of discrimination and harassment in certain areas of
the country, this discrimination and harassment was due to their
specific ethnicity and not to their religion or other
relationship to the Arab and Muslim communities of Kenya
(Ibid.).
Additional and/or corroborating information on the subject
could not be found among the sources currently available to the
IRBDC.
Bibliography
Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, New York. 6 August 1991.
Telephone Interview with Representative.
