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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL KENYA CALLS FOR RESPECT FOR AND PROTECTION OF LGBTIQ+ GROUPS IN KENYA Nairobi, Kenya, 4 October 2023: Amnesty International Kenya is deeply concerned about the recent surge in anti-LGBTIQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex and Queer persons) online and offline...

By Benta Moige Kenya has experienced unprecedented impacts of Climate Change for a while now,  from flooding across the country, especially in the Rift Valley, where rivers have been swelling, breaking banks, displacing hundreds, and destroying livelihoods, to extreme drought in Arid and Semi-Arid...

GHANA MP SAM GEORGE PARTICIPATION IN AFRICA LAW TECH CONFERENCE 2023   Nairobi, 12 July 2023: Amnesty International Kenya is one of several sponsors of the 2023 Law Tech Conference. It has come to our attention that Ghanaian Member of Parliament. Sam George was a panellist at the Continental Free...

By Njeri Gateru and Irũngũ Houghton, The reinvigoration of Kenya’s refugee system offers new possibilities for all those fleeing persecution. A new report reminds the government, UNHCR and development partners it is vital humanitarian services must not leave any asylum seeker behind. For over three...