Photo from tweet by Edgar Ogutu Liberator. On April 7, Maryanne Kasina tweeted: “Police In this Country have always decided to betray the people and protect the Oppressors.” Kasina, the co-founder of Kayole Community Justice Centre and convener of Women in Social Justice Centres movement in Kenya, participated in a Read more…
On April 6, PBI-Kenya posted: “In March, the WHRD [Women Human Rights Defenders] Toolkit Organizers held town hall forums with 125 teenage girls across the settlements to discuss the process of reporting SGBV [Sexual and Gender Based Violence] cases. This was in response to the increase in SGBV incidents.” They Read more…
On March 23, PBI-Kenya posted: “Missing Voices will be launching the 2020 Annual report on police killings tomorrow at Mama Ngina Drive in Mombasa. Stay tuned for this critical audit of policing in Kenya as we mark International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations Read more…
On March 23, PBI-Kenya posted: “Check out this report with Toolkit Organizer Editar Ochieng who defends women’s rights and helps survivors of sexual abuse. She shares about her work, her story and shows Les Émissions CANAL+ Afrique the murals made with the support of Peace Brigades International-Kenya Project.” Editar says: Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Kenya Project helped develop the Toolkit for WHRDs in Nairobi’s Urban Settlements in 2016. The Toolkit Organizers network grew out of that. The network is comprised of fifteen women human rights defenders (WHRDs) from the urban settlements of Kibera, Langata, Kawangaware, Mukuru and Mathare. On International Women’s Read more…
Photo from HAKI Africa. On January 13, the Peace Brigades International-Kenya Project tweeted: “We express concern regarding the arrest of human rights defenders HAKI Africa ED Hussein Khalid, Waithera Beatrice, Yassah Musa, and Ojiro Odhiambo today and urge for their release.” While still in detention, Khalid tweeted: “A threat to Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Kenya Project and Peace Brigades International-United Kingdom have just released a new 14-minute documentary titled Ghetto Justice. That documentary can be seen by clicking here. It raises many issues including mobilizing for social justice, the human right to water, and police killings in the informal settlements of Read more…
“Niache Nisome” translates as “Let me pursue my education”. On October 26, the Peace Brigades International-Kenya Project posted: “Murals are effective in communicating messages of change.” “These last weeks, the Women Human Rights Defenders Toolkit Organizers have been using murals to address the rise in child pregnancies during Covid-19.” “To Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Kenya Project has noted that there has been a sharp increase in teenage pregnancies in Kenya during the Covid-19 pandemic. PBI-Kenya has highlighted: “Child pregnancies are closely linked to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and put the health of girls at risk, have negative socio-economic effects and Read more…
In June, PBI-Kenya carried out a collaborative risk baseline assessment with sixteen Social Justice Centres that identified gaps that needed to be addressed to enhance the security of human rights defenders. Then in September, PBI-Kenya discussed digital security for HRDs, including safe communication platforms and social media presence. In their Read more…