By Alejandro Rodríguez, REDRESS’ Legal Officer Following the announcement of election results in Kenya on 30 December 2007, widespread… Read More
In a historic move, the Government of Kenya has paid 16 million Kenyan shillings (approx. USD $124,000) in compensation to four of the eight survivors of sexual violence in Petition 122 of 2013, marking the first time in Kenya’s history that survivors of conflict-related sexual violence are receiving official compensation… Read More
Masafu Okwara is a lawyer at the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) and a recipient of REDRESS’s Innovative Lawyers Awards. She spoke with REDRESS about confronting discrimination and violence against LGBTIQ+ people in Kenya. Through NGLHRC’s Legal Aid Clinic, she provides free legal representation to LGBTIQ+… Read More
“Let us be the generation that finally declares: there is no place for torture of LGBTIQ+ people, no place for hate, and no place for injustice on this continent.” This was the rallying cry from Mmapaseka Steve Letsike, South Africa’s Deputy Minister for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, at… Read More
Today, after over eleven years of litigation and four years since the initial ruling, a Kenyan court heard the appeal of four survivors of sexual violence in the COVAW et al. case. This civil claim was first brought in 2013 by eight survivors of sexual violence following the… Read More
Ahead of renewed mass protests in Kenya, the United Against Torture Consortium (UATC) expresses its grave concern over clear and convincing evidence of the systematic torture and ill-treatment, extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances of protesters by Kenyan security forces. We call on the Government of Kenya to issue an… Read More
REDRESS and the National Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) made this submission to draw the Committee against Torture’s attention to the issue of discriminatory violence affecting individuals identifying or perceived as LGBTIQ+ in Kenya. Read More
Today REDRESS and our Kenyan partners, the National Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC), made a submission to the Committee against Torture (CAT) as part of its examination of Kenya’s treaty obligations, which will take place from 19 April to 13 May 2022. The… Read More
