JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED FOR OJWANG’ AND LAW RESPECTED
By Kamau Ngugi, Executive Director, Defenders Coalition JUNE 2025 marks the first anniversary of the nationwide Gen Z protests in Kenya, which were sparked by the unpopular Finance Bill, 2024. Parliament endorsed numerous highly taxed items in a desperate move to excavate the feeling of a population, most of whom are poor, burdened by the […]
POLICE REFORMS WORKING GROUP STATEMENT ON YESTERDAY’S ANARCHY IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF NAIROBI
Nairobi, Wednesday, June 18, 2025: The Police Reforms Working Group strongly condemns the deliberate infiltration of peaceful protests by hundreds violent agitators who attacked protesters and caused mayhem in the County of Nairobi. The violence has resulted in the shooting of at least one unarmed bystander. Twenty-five people had also been hospitalised, five with gunshot […]
How truly public are the public participation forums in Kenya?
By Lucy Ayieko Project officer, Defenders Coalition When the 2010 Constitution was passed, a fundamental foundational principle of governance in the name of public participation was passed. Particularly, Articles 10 (2), 118 (b) and 196 (b) mandate that the state and in its governance, legislation and other initiatives, undertake public participation. This principle recognises the sovereignty […]
PRESS STATEMENT – PRWG-K Calls for the stepping aside of Eliud Lagat, Deputy Inspector General of Police
PRWG-K Calls for the stepping aside of Eliud Lagat, Deputy Inspector General of Police Nairobi, 11 June 2025, PRWG-K[1] Has reviewed the postmortem findings into the death of Albert Ojwang (31) and confirms, as many Kenyans already know, he did not die from self-inflicted injuries as earlier claimed by the National Police Service. We call […]
Kenya fails to comply with the African Court’s decision on the Ogiek peoples case 3 years later
Today, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights is conducting a public hearing in the case of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ vs the Republic of Kenya, in Arusha, Tanzania. (The Ogiek indigenous people’s case). The hearing is on the compliance of the Judgment on reparations delivered on 23rd June 2022 by […]
STATEMENT: Women Human Rights Defenders Demand Immediate Release of Rose Njeri
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STATEMENT: Women Human Rights Defenders Demand Immediate Release of Rose Njeri 3 June 2025, Nairobi Kenya We, Women Human Rights Defenders in Kenya, express profound concern over the arbitrary arrest and continued detention of Kenyan software developer and civic activist, Rose Njeri, who was apprehended on Friday, 30 May 2025. She was […]
Recent Remarks on Femicide by CS Gender Nominee misplaced and concerning
By Wallace Nderu Research and Advocacy Advisor -Defenders Coalition On Monday 14th Cabinet Secretary nominee for gender, Ms. Hannah Cheptumo, was before the National Assembly, Parliamentary Committee on Appointments, for vetting. During the interview, when asked to comment on the rising cases of femicide in the country, she noted, albeit misguided, that the women killed […]
PRESS STATEMENT:The Police Reforms Working Group condemns the enforced disappearance and torture of Human Rights Defender Boniface Mwangi, calls for the immediate release of Agather Atuhaire
Nairobi, 22 May 2025: The Police Reforms Working Group Kenya (PRWG-K) has this morning learnt that Mr. Boniface Mwangi, a renowned human rights defender, was dumped on the Kenya- Tanzania Border. Whereas we are relieved that Mr. Mwangi has been found alive, he has visible signs of torture. We therefore strongly condemn his unlawful arrest, […]
STATEMENT ON THE HARASSMENT, ARREST AND DETENTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
Nairobi, Kenya May 21, 2025 We, Human Rights Defenders, are deeply concerned on the whereabouts of human rights defender Boniface Mwangi of Kenya and Lawyer/Journalist Agatha Atuhaire of Uganda. The two were arrested, without warrant, from the Serena Hotel in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Monday, 19th May 2025, by persons who identified themselves as […]
Women Human Rights Defenders in Kenya Fact Sheet – Ni Mama Network
#NiMamaNetwork Defenders Coalition recognizes the work of women human rights defenders: All women and girls who work for human rights, all people who defend the rights of women and girls, and all people who defend the rights to be free from discrimination and violence based on gender and sexuality. #NiMamaNet, which is a national network […]