Kenya

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Overview

A Human Rights Adviser (HRA) is part of the UN Country Team (UNCT) in Kenya.

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News & Statements

Latest news

11 Jul 2024

Special Procedures

Kenya and Rwanda must provide information about disappeared human rights defender: Special Rapporteur

14 Jul 2023

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Comment by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence on Kenya protests

28 Apr 2023

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Türk in Addis Ababa, Nairobi - 30 April – 4 May 2023

28 Oct 2022

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Kenya: Türk welcomes charges of ‘crimes against humanity’ for 2017 post-election violations

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Latest statements & messages

07 Mar 2023

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Global update: High Commissioner outlines concerns in over 40 countries

16 Sep 2019

Independent investigation

Statement of the Chairperson and Members of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, at the 42nd Human Rights Council session

14 May 2019

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Great Lakes region: Combating impunity and upholding human rights as key contributions to peace and security

11 Jul 2018

Special Procedures

Statement at the end of visit to Kenya by the United Nations
Working Group on Business and Human Rights

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Featured Stories

A youth from the Rendille ethnic group, walks through a herd of goats and sheep at a water whole near the town of Kargi, Marsabit county, Kenya. © REUTERS/Baz Ratner
26 April 2023 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Supporting a human rights economy in Kenya

A UN Human Rights initiative in Kenya strengthens public participation in governance processes to ensure that marginalized groups are seen and heard in the budget-making process.
On election day, members of the OHCHR Surge Team engage with human rights defender, Maryanne Kasina, at a polling station in Nairobi. © OHCHR Photo/Stephen Kibunja
24 March 2023 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Partnerships and training helped prevent election violence

Partnerships and preventive engagement – working with the national human rights institution, police, civil society and grassroots defenders – contributed to peaceful elections in Kenya.
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UN and OHCHR Reports

UN Secretary-General and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Analysis of the Government of Kenya Financial Year 2023/24 budget and implications for the Sustainable Development Goals

Human Rights-Based Analysis of Kenya’s Budget, 2022/2023

Leave no one behind; peace and conflict analysis

Human rights-based analysis of Kenya Budget, 2021-2022

Breaking cycles of violence: Gaps in Prevention of and Response to Electoral Related Sexual Violence

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Infographics

Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. The UPR is a State-driven process, under the auspices of the Human Rights Council, which provides the opportunity for each State to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to fulfil their human rights obligations.

Special Procedures

Reports

A/HRC/41/43/Add.2: Visit to Kenya - Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises

A/HRC/40/62/Add.3: Visit to Kenya - Report of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism

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Special Procedures country visits

Treaty Bodies

Reports

CCPR/C/KEN/CO/4: Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Kenya

CEDAW/C/KEN/CO/8: Concluding observations on the eighth periodic report of Kenya

CERD/C/KEN/CO/5-7: Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Concluding observations on the fifth to seventh periodic reports of Kenya

CERD/C/KEN/CO/1-4: Concluding observations

CEDAW/C/KEN/CO/7: Concluding observations

E/C.12/KEN/CO/1: Concluding observations

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Status & Reporting

Status of Ratifications Reporting Status Standing invitation to Special Procedures Voluntary Pledges and Commitments

External Resources

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights African Court of Justice African Union Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions

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Contact Information

Headquarters

Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact in Geneva, Switzerland.

Africa Branch
Tel. +41 22 917 9220

Field

United Nations Office at Nairobi
UN Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator’s Office
Block N, United Nations Complex, Gigri P. O. Box 30218
00100 Nairobi, Kenya

Photo Credit : OHCHR/Axel Fassio

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