INTERVIEW WITH NCHRD-K’S PROTECTION OFFICER The working group on human rights defenders in Kenya is this afternoon scheduled to award the outstanding work of human rights activists for the year 2017. The working group comprises of community service organizations and development partners in Kenya, and focuses on the protection of human rights defenders. The award

The Advocacy Programme strives to achieve a conducive legal and policy environment for HRDs in Kenya, including through coordinating and harmonizing our advocacy interventions with those undertaken by our partners. In addition, we also initiate and carry out advocacy around specific cases of HRDs that have been identified in conjunction with Protection Programme staff as

Realizing Freedom of Assembly and Association:lessons from 2017 elections The National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders Kenya (NCHRD-K) convened over 70 HRDs from various parts of Kenya for a one and half days forum to discuss threats on Freedom of association through arbitrary directives by the government of Kenya. This has been observed to be

INTRODUCTION Civic space in Kenya continues to be under pressure with a range of actions employed against the work of Human Rights Defenders and Civil Society organizations in Kenya. Administrative action, legislative restrictions, negative rhetoric and limitation of human rights have undermined the Constitutional and international protections available to them hindering the realization of human

2017 ANNUAL JURISTS CONFERENCE COMMUNIQUE The Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya) in partnership with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), ICJ Africa, International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice (KPTJ) and the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) held its