African Prisons Project 2015: HRLC welcomes six Kenyan Fellows to Nottingham for a short course on Human Rights and Imprisonment

This week HRLC is introducing six Kenyan Fellows from the African Prisons Project to the topic of Human Rights and Imprisonment in a three day short course at the University of Nottingham.

Mary Khaemba, Bison Madegwa, Patrick Isaboke Nyaachi, Patrick Mwenda, Aggrey Onyango and Olivia Onyango are in the UK for eight weeks to complete a Professional Fellowship award funded by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission.

The HRLC programme at the University of Nottingham will address some human rights challenges related to imprisonment. These include:

•  Human rights as organisational risk
•  Mental disorder in detention
•  Prisoners and the right to vote
•  Access to legal advice
•  Life imprisonment as a human rights issue

The Fellows will attend sessions led by Professor Dominic McGoldrick, Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit, Ms Sangeeta Shah, Professor Noel Whitty, Professor Peter Bartlett, Dr Vicky Kemp and Ms Georgie Benford.