Passionately for the best interest of the girl child, A story of Ann Resiano
Anne is a mother to three daughters and a teacher who loves human rights. She has been a HRD for the last 16 years having started her human rights work within her profession as a teacher. Her focus is on girl child rights especially right to education and advocating against harmful cultural practices. Her greatest […]
Statement on Possible Internet Disruptions during #RejectFinanceBill2024 Demonstrations
24 June 2024: Twenty-seven international organisations and Kenyan associations of content creators, lawyers, medical officers and human rights defenders express deep concerns about the potential of possible internet and mass media disruptions during this week’s demonstrations to #RejectFinanceBill2024. The internet and mass media are critical for the enjoyment of the public’s right to be […]
Sociologist on a Mission, Meet Christine Wandera
Christine Wandera is a WHRD, community organizer and sociologist from Maringo, Makadara Constituency in Nairobi County, a settlement that was once a residential areas for officers working in government during the post-colonial Kenya. In recent times, the estate is inhabited by both young and old (Retired) low income earners to poor in-city informal settlements that […]
Community ownership for collective Action Against Corona Pandemic: The case of Pamoja Tuangamize Campaign
Defenders Coalition partnered with the Social Justice Centres Working Group and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in a project dubbed Paomoja Tuangamize Corona Campaign that was implemented throughout the month of July. The campaign was launched on July 3 in dandora Community justice Centre to address the novel Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) […]
MEET THE NOMINEE; UPCOMING HRD OF THE YEAR CATEGORY – JAFFAR MASOUD.
VETTING OF JAPHET KOOME FOR INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE NATIONAL POLICE SERVICE. 8TH NOVEMBER 2022
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT : WE ARE HIRING: THREE (3) PROGRAMME INTERNSHIP POSITIONS
WE ARE HIRING: THREE (3) PROGRAMME INTERNSHIP POSITIONS The Defenders Coalition which is the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders–Kenya (NCHRD-K) is a national organization incorporated in the Republic of Kenya as a Trust. Its mission is to strengthen the capacity of human rights defenders (HRDs) to work effectively and to reduce their vulnerability to […]
Silvana Lesuuda from Samburu County – Nominee 3 of 5 of the Upcoming Human Rights Defender of the Year Award Cetegory
About the HRD Silvana Lesuuda is a social justice activist leading Network Empowering Samburu Transformation ( NEST), a women-led organization based in Samburu County, located in Kenya’s ASAL areas and is home to pastoralists and indigenous persons characterised with largely patriarchal social and political setups. In Lesuuda’s community, women’s voices continue to be suppressed, ignored, […]
HRD Academy 2023 held in Nairobi
As various grassroot, national, regional and international human rights organizations made preparations in readiness for the commemoration of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) and the Declaration of Human Rights Defenders (DHRD) in December 2023, the Defenders Coalition was making preparations for something unique. The Defenders Coalition brought together 103 human rights defenders (HRDs) […]
ELIZABETH EKARU: HIGH COURT IN MERU FINDS THAT THE SUSPECT IN THE MURDER OF ISIOLO WOMAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER ELIZABETH EKARU HAS A CASE TO ANSWER
HIGH COURT IN MERU FINDS THAT THE SUSPECT IN THE MURDER OF ISIOLO WOMAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER ELIZABETH EKARU HAS A CASE TO ANSWER On 31 January 2024: High Court judge Justice Edward Muriithi ruled that Patrick Naweet who was arrested and charged following the gruesome murder of woman human rights defender Elizabeth Ekaru has […]