APRM • SECOND COUNTRY REVIEW REPORT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA Organised Crimes Act of 2010. Also, within the framework of the 2008 Accord, government addressed longstanding issues of reforms at the constitutional, institutional, land, police and judicial levels along with socioeconomic inequalities, corruption, accountability and youth unemployment, among others while resettling all displaced persons. 111. 112. 113. It set up several independent investigative commissions to unearth the underlying causes of recurrent violence and suggest remedies. The commissions included: • The Commission for Investigating the Post-Election Violence (CIPEV) • The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) • The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC). Apart from these commissions, provisions for the prevention of conflict were written into the 2010 Constitution through the Constitution Bill of Rights, and Chapter 4 section 34 on freedom and independence of electronic, print and all other types of media as well as article 37 that provides for every person the right to peacefully assemble, demonstrate, picket, and present petitions to public authorities. Other legislations and policy actions, include the Kenya Information and Communication Act, 2009, licensing by the Communication agencies of over 50 media organisations to expand media choice from the single broadcaster and two newspapers of a few years ago, the Employment Act 2007 containing elaborate provisions protecting persons from discrimination in employment, and the ratification of relevant international legal instruments that provide for political rights, including: • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; • International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD); • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPWD). Provisions were also written into the 2010 Constitution on: • The freedom of the media as guaranteed by Article 34 of the Constitution • The right to access to information as guaranteed by Article 35 of the Constitution • The freedom of association as guaranteed by Article 36 of the Constitution • The right to assembly as guaranteed by Article 37 of the Constitution | 87 |