A group of Kenyan artists affected by extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances is using its talents to spotlight the abuses. They speak truth to power, risking their lives to bring a just society. 

Joint NGO Letter to the European Parliament on Decision to Shrink “Urgency” Resolutions on Human Rights. See: https://hrdn.eu/joint-ngo-letter-to-the-european-parliament-on-decision-to-shrink-urgency-resolutions-on-human-rights/ 

Brussels, January 30, 2023

“The right to life is the most fundamental of human rights, and extrajudicial killings violate this very fundamental right, which is protected under various international human rights mechanisms and treaties.” Examples are the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Constitution of Kenya also protects the Right to Life.

In October, ten HRDs from the Social Justice Centres (SJCs) participated in a Training of Trainers (ToT) on community organizing. The participants are experienced community organizers from various SJCs in Nairobi. This particular training helped them to improve their skills in analyzing the community’s situation with fellow community members and seeking solutions together.

WHRD Speaker tour in Switzerland, France and Spanish State

Between 9 and 22 October 2022, Jecinter Agunja (Women HRD and Toolkit Organiser fro

Joint NGO Letter to the European Parliament on Proposals to Halt Human Rights Activities from the Human Rights and Democracy Network. See: https://hrdn.eu/joint-ngo-letter-to-the-european-parliament-on-proposals-to-halt-human-rights-activities/

Brussels, December 20, 2022,

Dear President Metsola,

Dear Presidents of the political groups of the European Parliament,

Missing Voices is a group of organizations whose mission is to end enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in Kenya. Missing Voices organises public campaigns to highlight extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances and puts the stories of victims and their families in the centre. Find out more on www.missingvoices.or.ke Their website provides current numbers of extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances and profiles of the victims and the circumstances under which their death or disappearance occurred.

‘Saba Saba - then and now’ documents the perspective of activists who participated in the struggles in the 1990s: their aspirations, their cause and the hurdles they encountered. How did they overcome those hurdles and at what risks did this come?

Then the film zooms in on the organizing going on today. What are the struggles, what is the response of the governments and how are human rights defenders supported? There are lessons learned from then and now.