“Man must rise to the heights of being obedient to the unenforceable,”   Martin Luther King.

KHRC Deputy Executive Director Mr. Davis Malombe (second left) and other members of KPTJ addresses the media giving their position on the return of Ambassador Bethwel Kiplagat to TJRC.We the Kenya Transtional Justice Network (KTJN) are concerned that the embattled former Chairman of the TJRC is seeking to reclaim his position again.  This is happening when the commission, though riddled with many integrity and operational problems is supposed to wind up its work and submit its final report in May 2012.  It is now clear to the general public that Kiplagat is led by personal ambition as opposed to the greater good of the country and especially victims of human rights violations, victims he claims to care about.

Friday, 16 December 2011

KHRC Executive Director Atsango Chesoni ( centre) flanked by Deputy Executive Director Davis Malombe (left) and Nduta Kweheria , Senior Programme Officer, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, address journalists during the press conference on devolution

The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) is deeply concerned by the ongoing debate, fronted by Hon. Jeremiah Kioni (M.P. Ndaragwa) and supported by some few MPs, who want Kenyans to amend the Constitution of Kenya (2010), through a referendum, to abolish Senate. The proposal to remove Senate lacks merit and is a further attempt to weaken devolution, one of the strongest and most transformative aspects of the Constitution. Further, Kenya must jealously guard against repeating mistakes made after independence; that of numerous constitutional amendments which served to completely emasculate democracy within less than 10 years after independence.

PRESS STATEMENT

SUPPORT FOR ARREST WARRANT AGAINST PRESIDENT OMAR EL BASHIR

2 December 2011

Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice, a coalition of citizens and organisations working in human rights, governance and legal areas, have come together to congratulate the judiciary for their progressive decision operationalizing the arrest warrant against the President of Sudan Omar el Bashir in Kenya.

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We, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, the Kenya Human Rights Commission and the National Cohesion and Integration Commission wish to share with the members of the public the preliminary findings of a joint fact-finding mission on crime and insecurity in Gusiiland.