📅 Date: 5th April 2025 ⏰ Time: 3:00 – 5:00 PM 📍 Venue: Whaley Park Community Center, 5620 E. Atherton St, City of Long Beach, CA 90815, USA Kenya has witnessed a surge in civic action, from nationwide protests to grassroots movements demanding accountability and justice. But how do we transform public dissent into concrete…
The shock announcement that the sixty-four-year-old USAID has been cancelled at the stroke of a President’s pen went viral earlier this month. While the international headlines may have subsided, the impact on millions of Kenyans has not. How is the Kenya Kwanza administration and 47 county governments responding to ensure our health rights are not…
New statistics released this week demonstrate violence remains a major threat to the safety and dignity of nearly 29 million Kenyan women and girls. Despite the creation of a large taskforce and the recent President’s Sh 100 million directive, the campaign against femicide needs a change of direction to effectively address this pressing national challenge.…
Grace Njoki Mulei and the Social Health Insurance Fund are trending again. As the 61-year-old patient and whistleblower was arraigned in court yesterday, Kenyans chose to arraign our infant health insurance programme and the National Police Service in the court of public opinion. Before Grace Njoki Mulei boldly stormed the media conference of Health Cabinet…
Madam President, members of the Council and the Law Society of Kenya. Amnesty International Kenya is very pleased and honored to offer keynote remarks at the Law Society gala dinner to honor advocates who provided legal representation to protesters. Despite 11% more lawyers coming to the bar each year, 50% of Kenyans experience conflict with…
A day before President Ruto launched new terms and conditions for the police, prisons and national youth service on Wednesday this week, Police officers chose to riot and rampage uninvited through the Multi-Media University of Kenya. If the last three months were not enough of a poisoned cup for Police Inspector General Douglas Kanja, who…
On behalf of the Kenya Union of Journalists, Bloggers Association of Kenya, Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union, the Kenya Medical Association, Missing Voices Alliance and the Police Reforms Working Group, we award this certificate of appreciation to all Law Society of Kenya advocates who provided legal representation to Kenyans unfairly arrested or abducted…
Nairobi, 8 August 2024: The Law Society of Kenya and Police Reforms Working Group’s attention has been drawn to media reports showing people masked and armed with large wooden batons on 6 August 2024 in Kapsabet town and elsewhere threatening to violently disrupt any form of gathering. The reports and videos seen by the Working…
The #RejectFinanceBill hashtag was tweeted four million times on X, attracting the attention of people nationally and globally. The hashtag entailed information on citizens’ demands on political accountability, civic education on various governance issues, calls for the release of citizens who have been unlawfully arrested or abducted, and community self-organizing on peaceful protests to take…