Kenya

Kenyan government must act urgently to end impunity and bring about essential reforms - 12 June 2009

As Amnesty International ends its high-level mission to Kenya, Secretary General Irene Khan urges the government to tackle impunity for human rights violatio

Two million people live in a human rights black hole in the slums of Nairobi - 12 June 2009

Successive Kenyan governments have failed to protect slum dwellers and generations of neglect by politicians has allowed such informal settlements to swell, according

Demand dignity for slum dwellers in Nairobi - 9 June 2009

More than half of Nairobi’s population – some two million people – live without adequate access to water, hospitals, schools and other essential publ

Amnesty International begins visit to Kenya with the marginalised - 8 June 2009

Amnesty International's Secretary General kicked off her first high level mission in Kenya with visits to two informal settlements in Nairobi – a city in which

Kenya: Amnesty International calls for immediate investigation into execution-style killings of human rights activists - 6 March 2009

Amnesty International today called on the Kenyan government to investigate immediately yesterday’s execution-style killings of two human rights activists.

Video: The women of Kibera in Kenya - 4 March 2009

For women living in one of the largest slums in the world, life can be devastating.

International Criminal Court "working to protect African victims" - 5 March 2009

The International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, discusses the ICC's work in the wake of the court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Sudan's Pr

Video: Working against poverty in Kenya - 17 October 2008

Michael Nyangi runs a microfinance project called Lomoro in Kibera, one of the largest slums in Nairobi, Kenya.

Poverty Day to address human rights and dignity - 17 October 2008

This year's International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is a call to everyone, from policy makers to the public, to recognise the rights and dignity of people l