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...

Ten years after the passing of the 2010 constitution, one in two Kenyans still believed that there was no equality under the law. The Director of Public Prosecutions’ statement this week that there is not enough evidence to charge a single police officer after several public violent incidents...

As the sun sets over the bustling streets of Dakar, delegates from across the African and Middle Eastern regions gather at the Amnesty International regional forum; their voices echo a shared commitment to uphold human rights amidst myriad challenges. Against the backdrop of conflict, displacement,...

Benna Buluma was not killed by raging floods. The Mathare based leader was killed by the lack of dignified housing, urban planning and misgovernance. This and the recent release of the global state of human rights report must trigger us to rethink how to future proof Kenya, Africa, and the world.

The 2023 Annual Missing Voices Report sheds light on the persisting issue of police impunity in Kenya, revealing both concerning trends and slight improvements in certain areas.

Wednesday, 24th April 2024. Today, the Missing Voices Coalition launches its 2023 Annual Report. This is the fourth report and a great milestone for the Coalition. The theme of the 2023 report is “End Police Impunity.” The launch coincides with another public statement made the by President of the...

MEDIA STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  UPDATE ON THE POLICE SERGEANT AHMED RASHID IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE FOR JAMAL MOHAMED AND MOHAMED DAHIR KHERI Nairobi, 7 December 2013: It has been eight years since Police Sergeant Ahmed Rashid was captured shooting two young men, Jamal Mohamed and Mohamed Dahir...

It has been 22 days since South Sudanese asylum-seeker Morris Mabior Awikjok was arbitrarily arrested in Nairobi and forcefully returned to South Sudan. His forced disappearance, the first prominent case for the Kenya Kwanza administration, raises fundamental questions whether the government...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL KENYA RESPONDS TO SWAZI SENATOR AND DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER THEMBA MASUKU STATEMENT Sunday, February 5, 2023: Amnesty International Kenya flatly refutes allegations that Amnesty paid Kenyans to protest against Eswatini. The brutal assassination of prominent human rights defender...

FEBRUARY 3, 2023 Today we close a chapter of one of the most heinous murders in our country. The murders of lawyer and human rights defender Willie Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda and their driver Joseph Muiruri brought to the fore the dark abyss of police criminality in Kenya. With the...

The above-listed organisations commend the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) for the swift investigations into the brutal murder of Edwin Kiprotich Chiloba. The investigations have resulted in a confession and arrest of four suspects. We laud their efforts to ensure that perpetrators of...

In the aftermath of the murders of Mohammed Zaid and Zulfiqra Ahmed and their Kenyan driver Nicodemus Mwania, a lot is coming to light about enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings. Almost a year earlier, it was reported that bodies were being dumped in gunny bags in River Yala by...