Four commissions submitted their end-term performance reports to the President this week. The moment offers both citizens and state officers an opportunity to reflect on how well they have discharged their respective accountability, advisory and advocacy mandates. Established in the sixth schedule...

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...

Monday, August 12, is World Elephant Day. Until last November, Kenya and Tanzania had taken a joint policy approach to protecting these massive mammals, who freely cross our borders without so much as an ETR visa. With thousands currently petitioning the Government of Tanzania to reverse the...

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...

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...

After a five-month delay, the Reverend Mutava Musyimi-led Taskforce formed to recommend more effective ways of regulating religious extremism submitted its report to President Ruto this week. Disappointingly, the report offers few fresh ideas. Commissioned after the Shakahola mass crime a year ago,...

Nairobi, Thursday, 25th July 2024: Amnesty International Kenya welcomes the ruling by High Court Judge Kanyi Kimondo that 11 Police Commanders and Officers have a case to answer in the case of Baby Samantha Pendo. The officers are being charged with 47 crimes against humanity, including murder,...

Are Kenyans able to break the cycle of repetitive compulsion and seize this national moment to transform systemic issues that have festered and finally burst? Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud explored the concept of repetitive compulsion a century ago. Repetitive compulsion is the unconscious tendency...

JOINT STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 20th July 2024: For decades, Civil Society Organizations in Kenya have been the backbone of our nation, tirelessly safeguarding democratic values and principles, amplifying the voices of vulnerable communities, promoting transparency and accountability, and...

Nairobi, 17 July 2024: The Police Reforms Working Group (PRWG-K) acknowledges the resignation of the Inspector General of the National Police Service, Japhet Koome, amid the several cases of deaths, serious injuries and abductions in the context of the protests that began as Anti-Finance Bill...

The youth demographic has been widely researched and studied, and their issues and recommendations to resolve their challenges are all public. Youth unemployment, underemployment, inadequate decent jobs, inadequate support for their start-ups, femicide, challenges in sustaining innovative...

Kenya enjoys rich and diverse cultures from well over 42 tribes spread over 47 counties. Our diversity comes along with practices that have shaped our societal fabric, including our indigenous knowledge that continues to face threats in the wake of conventional ideologies. While some of the...