Human Rights Watch (HRW)

State should protect women land rights defenders

Reading Time: 2 minutes By Faith Mutuku Fifteen years since the first International Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs)Day was celebrated in 2006, Women human […]

Lobby slams Kenya for failing to protect frontline health workers

Reading Time: 2 minutes The government has failed to fulfill its pledge to support health workers fighting Covid-19, thus exposing them to avoidable risks […]

State, lobby lock horns over victims of domestic violence

Reading Time: 2 minutes The government has locked horns with Human Rights Watch (HRW) over State’s alleged failure to adequately protect victims of Gender-Based […]

Why Africans support China against West on human rights

Reading Time: 2 minutes London, Sunday African countries are not among those calling out China for its treatment of the mostly Muslim Uyghur population […]

Rights body says Burundian refugees tortured, deported

Reading Time: 2 minutes Bujumbura, Monday At least 18 Burundian refugees and asylum seekers have been forcibly disappeared from refugee camps in Tanzania over […]

State blamed for deaths and brutality in Mau evictions

Reading Time: 2 minutes Human Rights Watch has condemned violent evictions from Mau Forest by police which have resulted in deaths and desperation to […]

Six people have died in police hands, says Human Rights Watch

Reading Time: 2 minutes At least six people died from police brutality during the first 10 days of Kenya’s dusk-to-dawn curfew to contain the […]