I recently visited an Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL) county and spoke with a teacher from a day secondary school. What I experienced will forever be ingrained in my memory. I wondered how and why the only secondary school in a sub-county would have a dismal performance with a mean score below 3 in the national examinations, while similar day schools performed well in the 2025 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination.
Lest We Forget: Chapter II is a powerful survivor-centred magazine by Amnesty International Kenya that documents lived experiences of police brutality, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and life-altering injuries in Kenya. Through deeply personal testimonies from families, survivors, and witnesses, the magazine humanises statistics and restores dignity to those whose lives were violently disrupted by abuse of power.
The phrase “family values” has been the subject of vexed and emotive debates in Kenya, Africa, and globally. A curious inquiry into its origins reveals a nexus among moral standards, social structural order, religious beliefs, and economics. A scan of its evolution in the twentieth century depicts individuals and groups rushing to rectify the deterioration of morals, aiming for an ideal they imagined: the nuclear family.
After months of seemingly endless waiting, the Gender‑Based Violence Technical Working Group’s report has finally reached the Presidency. What exactly have they proposed, and how do we ensure those recommendations translate into real action?
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After eight transformative years of service, Irũngũ Houghton will conclude his tenure as Executive Director of Amnesty International Kenya in June 2026.
While progress seems limited in many parts of the world, this year’s Data Privacy Conference demonstrated Kenya’s growing maturity in digital governance. Two areas emerged as needing our attention: data governance in the security sector and election management.
Privacy is often dismissed as a concern for those with “something to hide.” Yet in Kenya today, the right to privacy guaranteed under Article 31 of the 2010 Constitution is under unprecedented strain, not because citizens are engaged in wrongdoing, but because surveillance is quietly becoming normalized.
Are you passionate about safeguarding privacy and digital rights amid rapid digital transformation? Do you want to drive meaningful change in your community and country? Join Privacy First, an initiative by Amnesty International Kenya, and become an advocate for digital rights across Kenya!
The U.S. government’s forceful abduction of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and wife Cilia Flores in January read like the plot of a political thriller. While public resignation may have replaced initial shock and disbelief, that incident dominated international policy debate this week.
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Independent film-maker Nick Wambugu took his final bow this week after battling a rare blood disorder. As the Kenyan film industry prepares its tributes, Nick’s passing deserves wider acknowledgement by the Kenyan public and international community. Unlike many, Nick filmed not only to explain our world but to offer the silenced a voice and to protect the truth. An opinion co-written with Actor Melissa Kiplagat.