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Human rights in Kenya internationally maintain a variety of mixed opinions; specifically, political freedoms are highlighted as being poor and homosexuality remains a crime. In the Freedom in the World index for 2017, Kenya held a rating of '4' for civil liberties and political freedoms, in which a scale of "1" (most free) to "7" (least free ...
The main mission of the KNCHR, in its successive legal embodiments, has been to investigate and provide redress for human rights violations in Kenya, to research and monitor the compliance of human rights norms and standards, human rights education and training and campaigns, advocate, and collaborate with other stakeholders in Kenya. The KNCHR ...
Despite the reputation of the Rift valley as the cradle of humanity and positive co-existence, the peoples living there suffered through mass human rights violations in the later part of the 20th century. The mass violence in Kenya occurred throughout a period of over 40 years making it difficult to define concretely as post-election violence.
The murder sparked global condemnation, with human rights groups saying it was because of his sexuality. Kenya is a relatively conservative society and gay sex is illegal, punishable by up to 14 ...
The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) is a non-government organisation founded in 1992 and registered in 1994. The Commission campaigns to create a culture in Kenya where human rights and democratic culture are entrenched. It does this through monitoring, documenting and publicising rights violations. [1]
Concerns over Kenya’s human rights record have cast a shadow over a UN decision that gave Kenya the go ahead to lead an armed multinational force to Haiti amid brutal gang violence in the ...
When Obama visited Kenya in July 2015, the country where his father was born and where he is widely idolized, reproductive rights advocates hoped that he would use the historic occasion to finally announce that he would allow exceptions to the Helms amendment.
In a landmark decision the court overturned the decision of the Court of Appeal and found in favor of the Mitu-Bell Welfare Society, it held that the evictions were unlawful and a violation of the right to housing under Article 43(1) of the Constitution.In issuing it's orders the court observed that structural interdicts are recognized reliefs in human rights litigation under the Constitution.