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Muthoni Wanyeki is a political scientist who works on development communications, gender and human rights and has published in these fields. She currently works as the Executive Director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), a national, non-governmental organisation that works to promote all human rights of all Kenyans through research and advocacy as well as civic action.

This project, implemented by Mutawinat Benevolent Company(Mutawinat), sought to secure inheritance rights of Muslim women, which are generally denied in customary practice, even though their rights are recognised in Muslim laws. The project addressed the lack of public awareness of such rights and the stigmatisation of women who demand their inheritance. 

Mutawinat adopted a strategy that included the following aspects:

Address: P.O. Box 30454, Kampala

Tel/fax: (+256-41)-27 32 35

Contact: Ms. Margaret Katono-Mbaziira, Secretary General

KCMC School of Nursing

Address: P.O. Box 8243, Moshi Kilimanjaro

Tel: (+255)-27-27 54 378 (office)

Fax: (+255)-27-27 54 381

Contact: Mrs. Juliet Chugulu (in charge of all Tanzania NCs)

Address: CCT Church House, P.O. Box 759, Dodoma

Tel: (+255)-754 08 33 21/ -784 395 920

Fax: (+255)-26-232 43 52/26 232 30 42

Other Email: Stanleymkocha@hotmail.com

Contact: Mrs. Colomba Mapembe

Address: P.O. Box 10418, Khartoum

Tel: (+249) 122 50 51 30; (+249) 155 13 92 19

Fax: (+249) 155 13 43 91

Contact: Dr. Amna Abdel Rahman Hassan

Address: P.O. Box 38887-00623, Parklands, Nairobi KENYA

Tel: (+254)-20-374 40 83

Fax: (+254)-20-445 04)

Contact: Mrs. Asha Hagi Elmi Save

Address: 5 Dundas Street, Freetown, SIERRA LEONE

Tel: (+232)-22-22 44 56; (+232) 77 85 78 00; (+232) 765 553 408

Fax: (+232)-22 60 31/22 44 39

Other Email: iacsierraleone@hotmail.com

Address: Sicap Mermoz No. 7416, Dakar, Senegal

Tel: (+221) 77643 90 29; (+221-8) 25 82 45

Contact: Ms. Magatte Sy Gaye

Address: P.O. Box 71607, Victoria Island, Lagos

Tel: (+234)-1-263 12 31; (+234)-1-270 44 08

Fax: (+234)-1-264 00 60

Contact: Oyefunso Orenuga

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