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Open Society Foundations (OSF), formerly the Open Society Institute, is a US-based grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros. [2] Open Society Foundations financially supports civil society groups around the world, with the stated aim of advancing justice, education, public health and independent media.
The chairman of the commission was Justice Philip Waki, a Judge of Kenya's Court of Appeal.The other two commission members were Gavin Alistair McFadyen, a former police assistant commissioner in New Zealand and Pascal K. Kambale, a lawyer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who was working on the Open Society Institute's Africa Governance, Monitoring and Advocacy Project.
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) is a Southern African organization which "collaborates with other organizations on issues surrounding the rule of law, democracy building, human rights, economic development, education, the media, and access to technology and information. The initiative's varied activities share a common goal ...
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George Mong'are Kegoro is a Kenyan lawyer and the current executive director of the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA), an arm of the Open Society Foundations (OSF). Prior to that he was the director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission. [1]
After leaving her role as executive director, Wanyeki served as a board member of the Kenya Human Rights Commission until mid-2017. As of 2011 she was a member of the International Advisory Network for the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. [8] She is currently a member of the board of the Open Society Justice Initiative. [9]
In 2009, a case was brought before the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child by the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa and the Open Society Foundations on behalf of Nubian children in Kenya, alleging that they were denied nationality.
The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) is an organization in West Africa. OSIWA was established in 2000 as a part of the global network of Soros Foundations . OSIWA claims to promote "open societies where democracy, good governance, the rule of law, basic freedoms and widespread civic participation prevail" and "the value of ...