Nairobi, 23 May 2024: Amnesty International Kenya and ARTICLE 19 Eastern Africa express deep concern with Clause 63 of the Finance Bill (2024), which seeks to exempt the Kenya Revenue Authority from the provisions of the Data Protection Act. We strongly urge the National Assembly to reject this proposed amendment of the Data Protection Act, informed by the several considerations below.

Nairobi, 24 April 2024: Amnesty International Kenya receives with shock and sadness the news that Benna “Mama Victor” Buluma and at least two members of her family have died in the flash floods being experienced in Nairobi.

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.”

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29th February 2024, Nairobi: Amnesty International Kenya strongly condemns the reprehensible act of violence against Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Union (KMPDU) Secretary General Dr. Davji Atellah during a peaceful protest in Nairobi this afternoon. We express our deep concern over the use of force against Dr. Atellah and the medical interns he was leading, as they exercised their constitutional right to peaceful assembly.

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. Between 2016 and 2023, over 500 women have been killed. The majority of those murdered were below the age of 35 years and were killed by intimate partners or people known to them.

Nairobi, 1 December 2023: Amnesty International Kenya urges the Government of Kenya to intensify multi-sectoral humanitarian efforts despite reduced rains in northeastern and southeastern counties. With over 136,035 displaced, 27,205 households and 120 dead, and the peak of the El Nino rains yet to come, National and County Government, international, civic, and business efforts need to increase food and shelter, evacuation, and emergency health efforts to the affected. 

Nairobi, 24 October 2023 -Amnesty International Kenya condemns the Sunday, 22 October 2023 acts by the National Police Service, disruption and subsequent arrest of individuals gathered in support of Palestine and occupied territories.

Israeli security forces and Palestinian armed groups must make every effort to protect the lives of civilians in today’s outbreak of fighting in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, said Amnesty International amid a mounting civilian death toll.

Authorities across the world are increasingly resorting to unlawful use of force and repressive legislation to crush protests, Amnesty International said today, as it launched an interactive digital map that exposes the shocking rise in the repression of protesters by states across the globe.

Nairobi, 19 July 2023, 1 pm: With para-military police officers and armoured water cannon trucks already patrolling and engaging protestors across several towns and neighbourhoods, Amnesty International Kenya reminds the Government of Kenya and the Police leadership that they are legally bound by the UN Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms, the constitutional right to Assembly and National Police Service Act among other laws and regulations.

Nairobi, 7 July 2023: Amnesty International Kenya is monitoring protests taking place in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Kakamega, Turkana and other parts of the country. Today’s protest commemorates the historical “Saba Saba” movement, which significantly expanded human rights and democracy during the second liberation in the 1990s.