Victims of rape often face insurmountable obstacles in trying to bring the perpetrators to justice. Many women who have suffered rape or other forms of abuse are ...
This statement was given by Marie Evelyne Petrus, Director, Amnesty International, Africa Regional Office, at the lauch of the report: "Kenya: Rape - the invisible ...
This report sets out to answer some of the questions put to Amnesty International by women victims of violence. It looks at violence against women, particularly ...
As part of its campaign to improve respect for women's human rights, and to highlight the fact that violence against women is endemic in Kenya, these three leaflets ...
On 27 January 2001 armed police shot dead between 22 and 60 opposition demonstrators on Pemba island. This report describes the background to the human rights crisis ...
1.) Africa: The true cost of diamonds; 2.) Turkey: Widespread and systematic torture committed with impunity; 3.) Mexico: Human rights defenders persecuted; 4.) ...
The charge of "unlawful assembly" against the 71 members and supporters of the RPP was dropped on 23 November. A magistrates' court in Nairobi ruled that the charge ...
All 70 members and supporters of the Kenyan human rights group, Release Political Prisoners, were released on the orders of the High Court on 26 October 2001 on ...