• 9 May 2023
    Organization Development and Structure Strengthening training with WHRD Toolkit Organizers
    The WHRD Toolkit Organizers network has been active since 2016. Last year, several members started a community-based organisation, ‘Toolkit Organizers CBO’. With support from PBI Kenya they held a workshop on Organization Development and Structure Strengthening (ODSS). The Toolkit Organizers brought out the need to strengthen the CBO's structure and systems. The workshop contributed to the capacity to handle internal and external relationships for greater impact. They touched on leadership, governance and financial resource management.
  • 9 May 2023
    WHRD Jecinter Agunja and PBI Kenya meet with the Swiss Embassy in Nairobi
    Women Human Rights Defender Jecinter Agunja from the Coalition for Grassroots Human Rights Defenders Kenya and PBI Kenya
  • 5 May 2023
    Investing in improving relations between Police and Civil society
    From March until the end of 2024, PBI Kenya together with Kayole Community Justice Centre, Kibera Social Justice Centre and the Mathare Network (Ghetto Foundation, Ruaraka Community Justice Centre, Kiamaiko Community Justice Centre and Mathare Social Justice Centre) will set in motion a project to improve relationships and dialogue between HRDs, citizens and security forces in their respective areas.
  • 19 April 2023
    Toolkit Organizers network meetings
  • 19 April 2023
    Missing Voices: Accountability Now
    The Missing Voices 2022 Annual Report Accountability now was launched on 24 March 2023, the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims. Missing Voices documented 130 cases of police killings and 22 cases of enforced disappearances in 2022, bringing the total number to 152.
  • 19 April 2023
    Investing in improving relations between government and civil society in three urban settlements
    From March until the end of 2024, PBI Kenya together with Kayole Community Justice Centre, Kibera Social Justice Centre and the Mathare Network (Ghetto Foundation, Ruaraka Community Justice Centre, Kiamaiko Community Justice Centre and Mathare Social Justice Centre) will set in motion a project to improve relationships and dialogue between HRDs, citizens and security forces in their respective areas. This is supported with German Federal Foreign Office’s funds by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), zivik Funding Programme.
  • 19 April 2023
    PBI Kenya update January - March 2023
    The start of the new year has not been an easy one for human rights defenders in Kenya and the region.
  • 3 February 2023
    How Kenyan artists are fighting police abuses
    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. 
  • 2 February 2023
    Joint NGO Letter to the European Parliament on Decision to Shrink “Urgency” Resolutions on Human Rights
    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, 2023Dear President Metsola,
  • 12 January 2023
    International treaties that protect the Right to Life
    "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.

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