As part of its work reporting on the actions of Kenyan state security forces during the COVID-19 epidemic, Inform Action (IFA) has launched a new online project tracking police brutality in Kenya. Working with its field teams in all counties of the country, the IFA’s site publicizes police brutality cases during Kenya’s COVID-19 curfew that…
The Nairobi based Civil Society Reference Group (CSRG) is demanding that Kenya’s government take stronger action against police officers who have maimed and killed citizens while enforcing the country’s COVID-19 curfew. On the first day of the curfew, March 27, police officers immediately began to use brute force to punish people who were not in…
Maina Kiai, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of assembly and of association, reflects on the experience of the World Movement network over the past twenty years, and advises civil society movements to be mindful in the years ahead. Read more participant stories.
ARTICLE 19 works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination. ARTICLE 19 does this by working on two interlocking freedoms which set the foundation for all its work. First, the freedom to speak concerns everyone’s right to express and disseminate opinions, ideas and…