📅 Date: Tuesday, 29th April 2025
⏰ Time: 4:00 – 5:45 PM (EAT)
📍 Location: Rex Masai Assembly Hall, Amnesty International Office, Ground Floor, 197 Lenana Place, Lenana Road, Nairobi and Zoom Livestream
About Event
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Every year, Amnesty International publishes a comprehensive report documenting the state of human rights worldwide, highlighting events and occurrences in 154 countries.
The report sheds light on duty bearers’ failures to promote, protect, and observe human rights, emphasizing their impact globally, regionally, and locally, and demands that governments reaffirm their commitments to human rights. This event will highlight key messages from the report and invite contributions from participants.
Amnesty International Kenya will convene a panel discussion bringing together a diverse range of stakeholders, including scholars, human rights advocates, government representatives, students, and members of the public, to critically analyse the right to protest in Kenya.
The discussion will interrogate the structural and institutional barriers that have impeded the full and effective realization of this fundamental right, with particular attention to the events surrounding the 2024 protests.
This forum aims to foster a nuanced and multidisciplinary dialogue on civic space and the role of law and policy in safeguarding democratic freedoms.
PANELISTS
Sarah Jackson, Deputy Regional Director at Amnesty
Maria Tshai-Sarungi, Tanzanian independent media editor and human rights advocate
Dr. Njoki Wamai, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Studies at United States International University
Irungu Houghton, Executive Director, Amnesty International Kenya
