{"id":1780,"date":"2019-10-14T15:19:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T19:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2019-10-16T15:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T19:30:03","slug":"serious-challenges-with-some-green-shoots-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2019\/10\/14\/serious-challenges-with-some-green-shoots-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious challenges, with some green shoots of hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Eric<\/p>\n

Eric Gitari is a candidate for the\u00a0Doctorate in Juridical Science (S.J.D.)<\/a>\u00a0at Harvard Law School. Before beginning his studies at HLS, he was the co-founder and executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission<\/a> in Kenya.<\/p>\n

In a 2018 Harvard Law Today profile<\/a>, Gitari discussed his work with NGLHRC\u2014most notably, a case in Kenya that his NGO brought on behalf of two young men arrested in 2015 on suspicion of engaging in homosexual activities\u2014a felony in Kenya\u2014and distributing pornographic material.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, he described his work this summer, as a 2019 Chayes International Public Service Fellow<\/a>, monitoring the status of human rights for LGBTIQ persons in Gambia and Senegal, and his ongoing efforts to decriminalize same-sex relations in these and other African countries.<\/p>\n

Read “Serious challenges, with some green shoots of hope” on Harvard Law Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photo: National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Gitari is a candidate for the\u00a0Doctorate in Juridical Science (S.J.D.)\u00a0at Harvard Law School. Before beginning his studies at HLS, he was the co-founder and executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission in Kenya. In a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84965,84959],"tags":[73784],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-spotlights","category-summer-work-abroad","tag-chayes-fellowship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}