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Background reading for #HudumaNamba hearing today in #Kenya high court. Petitioners @NubianRights @HakiKNCHR @thekhrc argue the digital biometric ID system’s adoption followed an unconstitutional path (see #aadhaar) and the system ( #NIIMS) is designed to exclude and profile 1/
The system is very similar in design to #aadhaar, India’s centralized biometric identification system, which has recently been implicated in targeting and surveillance in furtherance of the NRC listing in #Assam https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffingtonpost.in/amp/entry/aadhaar-fears-coming-true-in-assam_in_5d26956be4b0cfb59600624f/
https://www.theelephant.info/op-eds/2018/07/07/crony-capitalism-and-state-capture-the-kenyatta-family-story/ these systems can be used for multiple purposes @DavidNdii ponders on a few possibilities
This is not the first time #kenyannubians have taken the #GOK to court over discrimination and arbitrary administration of person identification, which in #Kenya is intimately linked to legal status, recognition and rights see: https://www.justiceinitiative.org/litigation/nubian-community-kenya-v-kenya
@NubianRights runs #legalempowerment programs in their community and trains paralegals specialized in identification bureaucracy across #Kenya with @HakiCentre @Haki_na_Sheria and @GlobalNamati https://namati.org/ourwork/citizenship/
For deeper dives on the history of documentation schemes and their built-in exclusion in #Kenya and elsewhere, read @KerenWeitzberg eg https://codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/kenya-biometric-project-shrouded-in-secrecy/ and Wendy Hunter https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/undocumented-nationals/D2214D68B41FA0FF3C420DB18EC147D4
And now let the proceedings begin.
Follow @NubianRights @thekhrc @Haki_na_Sheria and #HudumaNamba #NIIMS for live updates from the courthouse in Nairobi @kenyanpundit @Olez @MustafaM_KE @lawyershubkenya @BronwenManby
Follow @NubianRights @thekhrc @Haki_na_Sheria and #HudumaNamba #NIIMS for live updates from the courthouse in Nairobi @kenyanpundit @Olez @MustafaM_KE @lawyershubkenya @BronwenManby
Updating this thread for #IDDay. The judgment came out in January 2020
http://kenyalaw.org/caselaw/cases/view/189189/
with orders to halt implementation of #NIIMS until a comprehensive legal framework addressing constitutional deficiencies is in place - the case is now at the court of appeal
http://kenyalaw.org/caselaw/cases/view/189189/
with orders to halt implementation of #NIIMS until a comprehensive legal framework addressing constitutional deficiencies is in place - the case is now at the court of appeal
