Kenya
Kenya's post-election violence suspects must be brought to justice - 6 November 2009
The Kenyan government has failed to implement a fair and credible judicial process to try those accused of carrying out human rights violations, including possible crimes against humanity, during lastKenya: Post-election violence suspects must be brought to justice - 6 November 2009
The Kenyan government has failed to implement a fair and credible judicial process to try those accused of carrying out human rights violations, including possible crimes against humanity, during last year’s post-election violence, said Amnesty International.
Amnesty International voiced its dismay at the process following a statement issued yesterday by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that he will seek to open an investigation into post-election violence in Kenya.
“The Kenyan government has left the ICC no option but to open an investigation by its failure to do so itself,” said Godfrey Odongo, Amnesty International’s East Africa researcher.
“Kenya has failed to define the crimes against humanity committed by members of all parties during the elections last year as crimes under national law. By doing so, it has opened the door to an ICC investigation and prosecution.”
World Habitat Day: Governments in Africa must end forced evictions - 5 October 2009
Governments in Africa must end the practice of forced evictions that leave hundreds of thousands homeless every year, Amnesty International said on World Habitat Day, 5 October.Forced eviction in Kenya - 5 October 2009
Short film about forced evictions from slums in Nairobi, Kenya.
The government failed to put in place a plan to bring to justice those responsible for human rights abuses committed during post-election violence, which subsided early in 2008, or to guar
4000 Kenyans on death row get life - 5 August 2009
More than 4,000 prisoners facing execution in Kenya had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment on Monday in the largest commutation in history, news sources reported.Kenya must provide shelter for 3,000 forcibly evicted in winter - 28 July 2009
The evictions appear to have been carried out as part of the government of Kenya's plans to build a new road, the Northern Bypass.Kenya: Government should provide emergency shelter for the thousands forcibly evicted from their homes in winter - 28 July 2009
Kenya’s government should provide emergency shelter and other humanitarian aid to the 3,000 people forcibly evicted from their homes and who are now exposed to tNairobi slum-dwellers march for better conditions and basic human rights - 12 June 2009
Secretary General Irene Khan led the marchers who came from informal settlements all over Kenya's capital - a city where over half the population live in sluKenya High-Level Mission Slideshow
A slideshow of photographs taken during Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan's high-level mission to Kenya on 8-12 June. While in Kenya, Ms Khan visited two informal settl