Kenya

Human Rights in REPUBLIC OF KENYA

Kenya: Statement on the conclusion of the mission led by Amnesty ...
16 June 2009

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI index: AFR 32/007/2009. 16 June 2009. Kenya: Statement on the conclusion of the mission ...

Document       AFR 32/007/2009

Two million people live in a human rights black hole in the slums ...
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 ...

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Kenyan government must act urgently to end impunity and bring ...
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 violations ...

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Kenya: How the other half lives: Nairobi’s slum-dwellers, Kenya
12 June 2009

In Nairobi the burgeoning slums and the unacceptable living conditions for their residents are testament to the government's failure to uphold the right of adequate ...

Document       AFR 32/006/2009

Kenia: La mayoría invisible: Dos millones de personas viven en ...
12 June 2009

Document       AFR 32/005/2009

Kenya: The unseen majority: Nairobi’s two million slum-dwellers
12 June 2009

The Kenyan government has for decades failed to take the minimum steps required to fulfil the right to adequate housing for residents of Nairobi’s slums and informal ...

Report       AFR 32/005/2009

Nairobi slum-dwellers march for better conditions and basic human ...
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 slums.

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Demand dignity for slum dwellers in Nairobi | Amnesty ...
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 public services ...

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

Amnesty International's Secretary General kicked off her first highlevel mission in Kenya with visits to two informal settlements inNairobi – a city in which almost ...

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Demand Dignity: Case studies on slums: campaign digest
28 May 2009

More than 1 billion people across all continents live in slum communities. As the cases in this digest demonstrate, disregard for life in the slum communities too ...

Document       ACT 35/010/2009