Familia ni kiungo muhimu sana katika kila jamii. Hapa Kenya hili limetambulika wazi katika sheria kuu ukurasa wa 4, kipengee cha 45. Kando na yaliochapishwa kisheria familia ziko aina nyingi kulingana na jamii na maelewano ya wanaohusiana kifamilia. Kuna mengi yanayokumba familia ambayao athari zake zinafikia jamii nzima kwa njia tofauti ikiwemo ubaguzi. Ubaguzi hujitokeza…
This year’s 16 days of activism against gender-based violence campaign seems set to take on greater significance. With the substantial spike in femicide cases, it is time for new agencies and actors to join the faithful feminists who raise awareness and demand that men stop killing women each year. Femicide is very different from homicide. Femicide…
Africa and the world continue to observe with keenness as an awakened population in Keny asks pertinent questions on social, political, economic and security accountability. The type of de facto governance currently being witnessed is not what was envisaged by our Constitution. Our national values and principles are continuously watered down with impunity yet, seeking…
Kenya’s 2007/2008 post-election violence exposed the country’s ethnic divisions in its starkest form. The role of the political class in the crisis cannot be overemphasized, but most importantly, the fact that Kenyans bought into the divisive rhetoric is more concerning. Lives were lost, property destroyed, family ties permanently broken, and some are yet to find…
The world is reaping a harvest of terrifying consequences from escalating conflict and the near breakdown of international law, said Amnesty International as it launched its annual The State of the World’s Human Rights report today, delivering an assessment of human rights in 155 countries. Amnesty International also warned that the breakdown of the rule…
Nairobi, 26th January 2024: Amnesty International Kenya strongly condemns the profiling, torture and killing of women and any other individual based on their identity. Over 10 cases of femicide have been reported across the country since 1 January 2024. That is, every second day, a woman has been brutalised and killed because of her identity.…
Nairobi, 30th November 2023: Two weeks before the 60th anniversary of Kenyan independence and 75 years after the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, Amnesty International Kenya and Tribeless Youth commissioned InfoTrak Research Consulting to conduct an identity-based poll to shed light on the pervasive issue of discrimination in Kenya. The poll, conducted between 10th and…
By Irũngũ Houghton and Bishop Joseph William Tolton The recent public taunting of the Speaker and the Presidency to have the Family Protection Bill leapfrog other laws before the National Assembly suggests that interests backed by strange foreign alliances seem dead set on dropping another crisis at the feet of the President at a time…