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KENYA
List of Documents
1.
General Information and Maps
Source:
United Nations. Cartographic Section.
Date of Document:
December 2011
Accessed Date:
16 November 2012
Title:
Kenya. L'Encyclopédie en ligne.
Accessed Date:
22 December 2016
Title:
Kenya. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
11 August 2022
Accessed Date:
19 August 2022
Title:
Report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Source:
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Date of Document:
July 2020
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Kenya. L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde.
Source:
L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde.
Date of Document:
14 April 2017
Accessed Date:
15 March 2022
Title:
Country Background Note: Kenya. Version 2.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
May 2020
Accessed Date:
18 September 2020
Title:
Kenya. BTI 2022 Country Report.
Date of Document:
February 2022
Accessed Date:
23 February 2022
Title:
Kenya. Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Africa, 2019.
Source:
United States. Social Security Administration.
Date of Document:
September 2019
Accessed Date:
18 September 2020
Source:
France. Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères.
Date of Document:
11 January 2021
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Report to the Committee against Torture on the Review of Kenya's Third Periodic Report on the Implementation of the Provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment and/or Punishment
Source:
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Date of Document:
February 2020
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Kenya: Impact of drought on the arid and semi-arid regions
Source:
Assessment Capacities Project
Date of Document:
29 March 2022
Accessed Date:
26 July 2022
Title:
Comprehensive Poverty Report: Children, Youth, Women, Men & the Elderly from National to County Level: 2020
Source:
Kenya. National Bureau of Statistics.
Date of Document:
July 2020
Accessed Date:
26 July 2022
Title:
Mental Health Atlas 2020. Member State Profile: Kenya
Source:
World Health Organization
Date of Document:
15 April 2022
Accessed Date:
26 July 2022
Title:
Kenya. Civic Freedom Monitor.
Source:
International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Date of Document:
19 July 2022
Accessed Date:
26 July 2022
Title:
Kenya. Third Time's a Charm? Reflections on the First and Second APRM Reports of Kenya, Mozambique and Uganda.
Source:
South African Institute of International Affairs
Date of Document:
October 2021
Author:
Isabel Bosman; Cayley Clifford
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
Common core document forming part of the reports of States parties
Date of Document:
22 December 2021
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
Urban Mixed Migration – Nairobi case study
Source:
Mixed Migration Centre
Date of Document:
November 2020
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
“We Are All Vulnerable Here”: Kenya's Pandemic Cash Transfer Program Riddled With Irregularities
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
20 July 2021
Author:
Otsieno Namwaya; Najma Abdi
Editor:
Mausi Segun et al.
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
Kenya. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2021.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
12 April 2022
Accessed Date:
25 April 2022
Title:
Kenya. World Report 2022: Events of 2021.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2022
Accessed Date:
15 March 2022
Title:
Kenya. Freedom in the World 2022.
Accessed Date:
24 March 2022
Title:
Concluding observations on the combined second to fifth periodic reports of Kenya
Source:
United Nations. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Date of Document:
6 April 2016
Accessed Date:
22 December 2016
Title:
Mid-term progress report on the implementation of accepted recommendations from Kenya's 2nd cycle review in January 2015
Date of Document:
June 2018
Accessed Date:
18 September 2020
Title:
A Report on Gender Audit of the Situation of Women & other Vulnerable Human Rights Defenders in Kenya
Source:
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Accessed Date:
5 January 2018
Title:
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Kenya. Addendum: Views on conclusions and/or recommendations, voluntary commitments and replies presented by the State under review
Date of Document:
6 July 2020
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21: Kenya
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/35/KEN/1
Date of Document:
11 November 2019
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/35/KEN/2
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
18 November 2019
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Summary of Stakeholders' submissions on Kenya
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/35/KEN/3
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
5 November 2019
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Guarding the coast: A report of the public inquiry on insecurity and its impact on the enjoyment of human rights in the coastal region of Kenya
Source:
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Kenya. Amnesty International Report 2021/22: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
29 March 2022
Accessed Date:
30 March 2022
Title:
Replies of Kenya to the list of issues in relation to its fourth periodic report
Date of Document:
27 January 2021
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Nairobi Evicts 8,000 People Amidst a Pandemic and Curfew
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
10 June 2020
Author:
Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu; Najma Abdi
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
COVID-19 further fuels mental health crisis in Dadaab as durable solutions falter
Date of Document:
9 October 2020
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Kenya: Quarantine Conditions Undermine Rights
Source:
Human Right Watch
Date of Document:
28 May 2020
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Report of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism on her visit to Kenya
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Committee.
Date of Document:
22 January 2019
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
3.
Identification Documents and Citizenship
Title:
Kenya. U.S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Accessed Date:
19 August 2022
Title:
Citizenship. Constitution of Kenya.
Accessed Date:
16 November 2014
Title:
Requirements and procedures for the spouse of a Kenyan citizen to obtain citizenship; whether someone who lived in Kenya and was married to a Kenyan citizen for over seven years, but whose spouse died, has the rights to Kenyan citizenship
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
8 August 2012
Accessed Date:
8 January 2013
Title:
Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act, No. 12 of 2011. Revised Edition 2019 [2011].
Accessed Date:
18 September 2020
Title:
Situation of individuals who obtained refugee status before the Refugees Act of 2006 came into effect and who have an expired Alien Certificate; requirements and procedures to renew an expired Alien Certificate
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
23 September 2015
Accessed Date:
3 December 2015
Title:
The Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act, 2011 - Extension of Time, Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 169, Legal Notice No. 178.
Accessed Date:
23 January 2017
Title:
Ability of refugees with a refugee identity card to travel outside Kenya; whether such travel affects refugee status or card renewal; ability to reinstate status (2011-October 2016)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
7 November 2016
Accessed Date:
22 March 2017
Title:
Recognising Nairobi's Refugees: The Challenges and Significance of Documentation Proving Identity and Status
Source:
Norwegian Refugee Council; International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School
Date of Document:
November 2017
Accessed Date:
22 January 2018
Title:
Kenya. Statelessness and Citizenship in the East African Community.
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Date of Document:
September 2018
Accessed Date:
23 January 2019
Title:
Report on Citizenship Law: Kenya
Source:
European University Institute. Global Citizenship Observatory.
Date of Document:
April 2020
Accessed Date:
18 September 2020
Title:
Requirements and procedures to obtain a driver's licence, including residents and non-residents; government authorities responsible for verifying license and driving history (2019–October 2021)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
8 October 2021
Accessed Date:
21 February 2022
Title:
Requirements and procedures to obtain documents from abroad, including police reports, birth certificates and medical records; procedures if the applicant is outside Kenya and has no identity documents or only the certified true copy of a ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
5 February 2021
Accessed Date:
7 February 2022
Title:
Snapshot of civil registration and vital statistics systems of Kenya
Source:
International Development Research Centre. Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems.; United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
Report of the Digital Identification Document (ID) & Citizenship Consultative Meeting
Source:
Kenya Human Rights Commission
Date of Document:
January 2019
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
Republic of Kenya. Election for Kenyan National Assembly of 8 August 2017.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
19 December 2019
Title:
Kenya – 2017 elections: Broken promises put human rights defenders at risk
Source:
World Organisation Against Torture; International Federation for Human Rights
Date of Document:
May 2017
Editor:
Chiara Cosentino et al.
Accessed Date:
5 January 2018
Title:
Final Report. Republic of Kenya General Elections 2017.
Source:
European Union Election Observation Mission
Date of Document:
January 2018
Accessed Date:
22 January 2018
Title:
Republic of Kenya. Election for President of 26 October 2017.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
19 December 2019
Title:
Kenya: Fresh Evidence of Election-Period Abuses
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
25 February 2018
Accessed Date:
23 January 2019
Title:
Republic of Kenya. Election for Kenyan Senate of 8 August 2017.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
19 December 2019
Title:
KNCHR Elections Monitoring Strategy (2022 General Elections-From Pre-poll to Post-poll): ‘Buffering the Inherent Universal Suffrage Rights'
Source:
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
Kenya's 2022 Election: High Stakes. Africa Report N°182.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
9 June 2022
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
JUST IN — William Ruto declared Kenya's presidential race winner after chaos over vote count
Date of Document:
15 August 2022
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
Protection Against Domestic Violence Act
Accessed Date:
5 January 2018
Title:
Kenya. Social Institutions and Gender Index 2019.
Source:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Date of Document:
7 December 2018
Accessed Date:
11 December 2019
Title:
Protecting the Family in the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic: Addressing the Escalating Cases of Gender-Based Violence, Girl Child Disempowerment and Violation of Children Rights in Kenya
Source:
Kenya National Crime Research Centre
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
A Gender Analysis of the 2017 Kenya General Elections
Source:
National Democratic Institute; Federation of Women Lawyers Kenya
Date of Document:
28 February 2018
Accessed Date:
19 December 2019
Title:
Situation and treatment of single women and of women who head their own households, including their ability to live on their own and access housing, income, health care, and support services, particularly in Nairobi (2019–June 2021)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
6 July 2021
Accessed Date:
23 July 2021
Title:
Women's and widows' inheritance rights in civil and customary law, including among the Bukusu ethnic group; prevalence of levirate marriage, including among the Bukusu ethnic group; consequences and state protection available for women who refuse...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
29 January 2014
Accessed Date:
23 December 2014
Title:
Concluding observations on the eighth periodic report of Kenya
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Date of Document:
22 November 2017
Accessed Date:
22 January 2018
Title:
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 18 of the Convention. Eighth periodic report of States parties due in 2015. Kenya.
Date of Document:
1 June 2016
Accessed Date:
29 December 2016
Title:
Kenya. Education Under Attack 2022.
Source:
Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack
Date of Document:
1 June 2022
Author:
Jerome Marston et al.
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
Information on Kenya for Consideration by the Committee against Torture at its 73rd Session
Date of Document:
18 March 2022
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
“They Were Men in Uniform”: Sexual Violence against Women and Girls in Kenya's 2017 Elections
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
14 December 2017
Accessed Date:
5 January 2018
Title:
A Profile of Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya
Source:
United Nations Children's Fund
Date of Document:
March 2020
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
“Once You Get Out, You Lose Everything”: Women and Matrimonial Property Rights in Kenya
Source:
Human Rights Watch; Federation of Women Lawyers
Date of Document:
15 June 2020
Author:
Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Country case-study: sexual and reproductive rights in Kenya
Source:
Privacy International
Date of Document:
4 June 2020
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Gender and countering violent extremism (CVE) in the Kenya-Mozambique region
Source:
Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development
Date of Document:
19 October 2020
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Baseline Study Report: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and Child Marriage among the Rendille, Maasai, Pokot, Samburu and Somali Communities in Kenya
Source:
United Nations Children's Fund
Date of Document:
December 2017
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Tackling Kenya's Domestic Violence Amid COVID-19 Crisis
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
8 April 2020
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Kenya: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Version 1.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
June 2021
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Impacts of COVID-19 on female genital cutting
Date of Document:
September 2020
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Domestic violence; legislation; state protection and support services available, especially in Nairobi (2019–June 2021)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
2 July 2021
Accessed Date:
23 July 2021
Title:
“I Had Nowhere to Go” Violence Against Women and Girls During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Kenya
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
21 September 2021
Author:
Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu; Lydia Muthiani
Editor:
Heather Barr; Agnes Odhiambo
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
Sexual Violence as a Political Tool During Elections in Kenya: State Actions Needed Ahead of the 2022 Polls
Source:
International Federation for Human Rights
Date of Document:
December 2021
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Kenya – Joint Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women on the Femicide Watch Initiative
Source:
Equality Now et al.
Date of Document:
30 April 2021
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Input or Special Rapporteur's Report on Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girl
Source:
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Date of Document:
31 January 2022
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Kenya. State-Sponsored Homophobia 2019.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
March 2019
Author:
Lucas Ramón Mendos
Accessed Date:
20 December 2019
Title:
“To Them, We're Not Even Human”: Marginalised Human Rights Defenders in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania
Date of Document:
December 2018
Author:
David Meffe et al.
Accessed Date:
20 December 2019
Title:
Kenya. Stonewall Global Workplace Briefings 2018.
Accessed Date:
23 December 2019
Title:
Kenya: Court Finds Forced Anal Exams Unconstitutional
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
22 March 2018
Accessed Date:
28 December 2018
Title:
Research on The Lived Experiences of Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women in Kenya
Source:
Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya et al.
Date of Document:
February 2016
Accessed Date:
23 January 2017
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Kenya: Sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. Version 3.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
April 2020
Accessed Date:
18 September 2020
Title:
Situation of persons with diverse sexual orientation and gender identity and expression (SOGIE), including their treatment by society and state authorities; state protection and support services (2019–July 2021)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
13 July 2021
Accessed Date:
23 July 2021
Title:
Kenya: LGBTQI+ rights must be championed by civil society
Date of Document:
17 May 2022
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
7.
Criminality and Corruption
Source:
Stanford University. Mapping Militant Organizations.
Date of Document:
January 2019
Accessed Date:
23 December 2019
Source:
Council on Foreign Relations
Date of Document:
19 May 2021
Author:
Claire Felter et al.
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Kenya: Tier 2. Trafficking in Persons Report 2022.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
19 July 2022
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
Kenya Bribery Index 2019
Source:
Transparency International Kenya
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Al-Shabaab. Country Reports on Terrorism 2020.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
16 December 2021
Accessed Date:
23 February 2022
Title:
The Sungu Sungu group, including activities and areas of operation; actions taken by authorities against the group; state protection available to victims (2010-2013)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
18 November 2013
Accessed Date:
29 November 2013
Title:
Al-Shabaab Five Years after Westgate: Still a Menace in East Africa. Africa Report N°265.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
21 September 2018
Accessed Date:
23 January 2019
Title:
Kenya. Country Reports on Terrorism 2020.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
16 December 2021
Accessed Date:
23 February 2022
Title:
OSAC Country Security Report. Kenya.
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
4 August 2021
Accessed Date:
15 March 2022
Title:
The Mungiki group, including organizational structure, leadership, membership, recruitment and activities; the relationship between the government and the group, including protection offered to its victims (2016-April 2018)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
16 April 2018
Accessed Date:
24 January 2019
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
16 January 2020
Author:
Lauren Ploch Blanchard
Accessed Date:
18 September 2020
Title:
How to Shield Education from Al-Shabaab in Kenya's North East. Africa Briefing N°159.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
22 July 2020
Accessed Date:
18 September 2020
Title:
“A war that hurts us twice”: Inside Kenya's war on terror: community perspectives on security in Mandera county
Date of Document:
August 2020
Author:
Bénédicte Goderiaux et al.
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Clan Conflict and Violent Extremism in the North-Eastern Counties of Kenya
Source:
Royal United Services Institute
Date of Document:
June 2019
Author:
Gayatri Sahgal et al.
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
Report on the Urban Safety Governance Assessment in Mathare, Nairobi City. Pilot study.
Source:
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Date of Document:
July 2020
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
The politics of crime: Kenya's gang phenomenon
Source:
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
Date of Document:
November 2020
Author:
Simone Haysom; Ken Opala
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
The National Police Service Annual Report 2020
Source:
Kenya. National Police Service.
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Kenya now a key transit point for south-bound migrants
Source:
Institute for Security Studies et al.
Date of Document:
July 2019
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Corruption and devolution in Kenya. U4 Helpdesk Answer 2021.
Source:
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre; Transparency International
Date of Document:
23 April 2021
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Kenya: Police Impunity Raises Election Risk
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
1 August 2022
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
8.
Military Service - (No items in this section)
9.
Judiciary, Legal and Penal Systems
Title:
Kenya's scorecard on security and justice: Broken promises and unfinished business
Source:
International Federation for Human Rights; Kenya Human Rights Commission
Date of Document:
July 2017
Accessed Date:
5 January 2018
Title:
Types of affidavits used, including differences between court-issued and notary-issued affidavits; requirements and procedure for the issuance of affidavits; availability of fraudulent affidavits (2019–June 2021)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
7 July 2021
Accessed Date:
22 July 2021
Title:
Third periodic report submitted by Kenya under article 19 of the Convention pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, due in 2017
Date of Document:
26 December 2018
Accessed Date:
23 January 2019
Title:
Update: Researching Kenyan Law
Date of Document:
April 2020
Author:
Tom Ojienda et al.
Accessed Date:
18 September 2020
Title:
Kenya and Somalia: Copy of a Kenyan lawyer's stamp being fraudulently used to notarize affidavits, including for Somali clients (2018–March 2021)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
23 March 2021
Accessed Date:
7 February 2022
Title:
Compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: The Death Penalty
Source:
The Advocates for Human Rights et al.
Date of Document:
18 March 2022
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Report to the Committee Against Torture on the review of Kenya's third periodic report on the implementation of the provisions of the convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and/or punishment
Source:
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Date of Document:
March 2022
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Penal Code Chapter 63: Revised Edition 2012
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
Changing Times: Covid -19 and Access to Justice in Kenya
Source:
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
10.
Police and Security Forces
Title:
State of Privacy Kenya
Source:
Privacy International; National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders-Kenya
Date of Document:
26 January 2019
Accessed Date:
23 December 2019
Title:
Track, Capture, Kill: Inside Communications Surveillance and Counterterrorism in Kenya
Source:
Privacy International
Date of Document:
15 March 2017
Accessed Date:
22 January 2018
Title:
The Threat of Al-Shabaab in Kenya: The Kenyan Government's Counterterrorism Approach
Source:
United Kingdom. Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
Date of Document:
January 2019
Author:
Yashasvi Chandra; Felicity Herrmann
Accessed Date:
23 December 2019
Title:
Kenya has tried to reform its police force, but it's left gaps for abuse
Date of Document:
3 February 2022
Author:
Douglas Lucas Kivoi
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
Kenya: Nairobi Police Executing Suspects
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
2 July 2019
Accessed Date:
23 December 2019
Title:
“They Just Want to Silence Us”: Abuses Against Environmental Activists at Kenya's Coast Region
Source:
Human Rights Watch; The National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders - Kenya
Date of Document:
December 2018
Author:
Otsieno Namwaya et al.
Editor:
Jehanne Henry et al.
Accessed Date:
23 December 2019
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note Kenya: Actors of protection. Version 1.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
May 2020
Accessed Date:
18 September 2020
Title:
Kenya: Police Brutality During Curfew
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
22 April 2020
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Kenya Police Abuses Could Undermine Coronavirus Fight
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
31 March 2020
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
COI Query Response. Kenya: Desertion from the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF).
Source:
European Union. European Asylum Support Office.
Date of Document:
7 August 2018
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Kenya: High Court Declares Penal Code Provision on Criminal Defamation Unconstitutional
Source:
United States. Library of Congress. Global Legal Monitor.
Date of Document:
14 February 2017
Accessed Date:
5 January 2018
Title:
Kenya: Violations of Media Freedom. May 2017 – April 2018.
Accessed Date:
23 December 2019
Title:
Kenya. Freedom on the Net 2021.
Editor:
Elisha Aaron et al.
Accessed Date:
23 February 2022
Title:
Kenya: Assessing Digital Participation
Source:
Deutsche Welle Akademie
Date of Document:
February 2019
Editor:
Matthew Moore; Deanne Corbett
Accessed Date:
3 January 2020
Title:
Freedom of Expression and the Digital Environment in Eastern Africa. Monitoring report: January–December 2020.
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Digital Space Case Digest
Source:
Civil Society Reference Group (CSRG)
Date of Document:
December 2020
Author:
Faith Kisinga Gitonga
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Kenya. International Religious Freedom Report for 2021.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
2 June 2022
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Kenya. The Freedom of Thought Report.
Source:
Humanists International
Date of Document:
30 November 2020
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
13.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Race
Title:
Kenya. The Indigenous World 2022.
Source:
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Date of Document:
April 2022
Author:
Mali Ole Kaunga; David N. Silakan
Editor:
Dwayne Mamo et al.
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
The Kalenjin Raiders, including extent of control and influence, particularly in Nairobi; treatment of members of the Kalenjin ethnic group that did not support the Raiders between 2006 and 2008; availability of state protection (2013-November 2014)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
17 November 2014
Accessed Date:
3 December 2015
Title:
Footprints of Peace. Consolidating National Cohesion in a Devolved Kenya 2014 – 2018.
Source:
National Cohesion and Integration Commission
Accessed Date:
3 January 2020
Title:
Concluding observations on the fifth to seventh periodic reports of Kenya
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Date of Document:
8 June 2017
Accessed Date:
5 January 2018
Title:
The National Cohesion and Peace Building Bill, 2018
Accessed Date:
3 January 2020
Title:
Kenya. World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples.
Source:
Minority Rights Group International
Date of Document:
December 2021
Accessed Date:
15 March 2022
Title:
Kenya: Mau Forest Evictees' Plight Intensifies
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
23 July 2020
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Combined eighth and ninth periodic report submitted by Kenya under article 9 of the Convention, due in 2020: International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Date of Document:
16 February 2022
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
The Pemba Minority Stateless in Kenya
Source:
Global Human Rights Defence
Date of Document:
29 June 2021
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Conserving the Mau-Forest: The Ogieks fight for their rights
Source:
Global Human Rights Defence
Author:
Dorá Horvath; Fairuz Sewbaks
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
14.
Exit/Entry and Freedom of Movement
Title:
Rights and obligations conferred on an individual who has been recognized as a refugee, including the requirements and process for obtaining permanent residence for this individual; rights and obligations of an individual who possesses an...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
20 February 2015
Accessed Date:
17 December 2015
Title:
Exit controls at airports, including whether border officials check for police or criminal records (2013-December 2014)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
15 December 2014
Accessed Date:
11 December 2015
Title:
Accessibility of postal services for undocumented migrants, particularly from Somalia (2016-September 2018)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
21 September 2018
Accessed Date:
24 January 2019
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Kenya: Internal relocation. Version 1.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
May 2020
Accessed Date:
18 September 2020
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Migration Profile of Kenya
Source:
Migrants & Refugees
Date of Document:
December 2020
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
A survey report on the status of migrants in places of detention in Kenya
Source:
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Date of Document:
October 2020
Author:
Veronica Mwangi; Amos Wanyoike
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
15.
Labour, Employment and Unions - (No items in this section)
16.
Other - (No items in this section)
The following changes have been made to the previous package dated 29 April 2022:
Title:
Kenya. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
4 March 2022
URL:
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/kenya/
Accessed Date:
15 March 2022
Title:
Kenya. U.S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
URL:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/Kenya.html
Accessed Date:
15 March 2022
Title:
Kenya. Education Under Attack 2020.
Source:
Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack
Date of Document:
9 July 2020
Author:
Marika Tsolakis et al.
URL:
https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/eua_2020_full.pdf
Accessed Date:
18 September 2020
Title:
Kenya: Tier 2. Trafficking in Persons Report 2021.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
1 July 2021
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2021-trafficking-in-persons-report/kenya/
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
OSAC Country Security Report. Kenya.
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
4 August 2021
URL:
https://www.osac.gov/Content/Report/aea705ea-eea4-4195-aa33-1c3b31c1fdd3
Accessed Date:
15 March 2022
Title:
Kenya. International Religious Freedom Report for 2020.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
12 May 2021
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-report-on-international-religious-freedom/kenya/
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Kenya. The Indigenous World 2021.
Source:
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Date of Document:
April 2021
Author:
Mali Ole Kaunga; David N. Silakan
Editor:
Dwayne Mamo et al.
URL:
https://www.iwgia.org/en/resources/indigenous-world.html
Accessed Date:
28 July 2021
Title:
Securing National Security and Protection of Human Rights. A Comparative Analysis of the Efficacy of Counter Terrorism.
Source:
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
URL:
http://www.knchr.org/Portals/0/CivilAndPoliticalReports/Securing%20National%20Security%20and%20Protection%20of%20Human%20Rights.pdf?ver=2017-06-29-161740-953
Accessed Date:
5 January 2018
Title:
FGM in Kenya. Country Profile Update.
Date of Document:
December 2016
URL:
https://www.28toomany.org/static/media/uploads/Country%20Research%20and%20Resources/Kenya/kenya_country_profile_update_v3_(july_2017).pdf
Accessed Date:
23 January 2017
Title:
Kenya: The Law and FGM
Date of Document:
May 2018
URL:
https://www.28toomany.org/static/media/uploads/Law%20Reports/kenya_law_report_v1_(may_2018).pdf
Accessed Date:
28 December 2018
Title:
Chapter 4: Performance in Mandate Areas. End-Term Board Report 2012 - 2018.
Source:
Kenya. Independent Policing Oversight Authority.
Date of Document:
May 2018
URL:
http://www.ipoa.go.ke/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IPOA-BOARD-END-TERM-REPORT-2012-2018-for-website.pdf
Accessed Date:
23 January 2019
Title:
Kenya: Impact of drought on the arid and semi-arid regions
Source:
Assessment Capacities Project
Date of Document:
29 March 2022
URL:
https://www.acaps.org/sites/acaps/files/products/files/20220331_acaps_thematic_report_kenyaimpact_of_drought.pdf
Accessed Date:
26 July 2022
Title:
Comprehensive Poverty Report: Children, Youth, Women, Men & the Elderly from National to County Level: 2020
Source:
Kenya. National Bureau of Statistics.
Date of Document:
July 2020
URL:
https://www.genderinkenya.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CPR-Report-10_08_2020.pdf
Accessed Date:
26 July 2022
Title:
Mental Health Atlas 2020. Member State Profile: Kenya
Source:
World Health Organization
Date of Document:
15 April 2022
URL:
https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/mental-health/mental-health-atlas-2020-country-profiles/ken.pdf?sfvrsn=b0481dcf_5&download=true
Accessed Date:
26 July 2022
Title:
Kenya. Civic Freedom Monitor.
Source:
International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Date of Document:
19 July 2022
URL:
https://www.icnl.org/resources/civic-freedom-monitor/kenya
Accessed Date:
26 July 2022
Title:
Kenya. Third Time's a Charm? Reflections on the First and Second APRM Reports of Kenya, Mozambique and Uganda.
Source:
South African Institute of International Affairs
Date of Document:
October 2021
Author:
Isabel Bosman; Cayley Clifford
URL:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep37807.7.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A97368fe94ee6bd904fba6d511efe0527&ab_segments=&origin=
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
Common core document forming part of the reports of States parties
Date of Document:
22 December 2021
URL:
http://undocs.org/en/HRI/CORE/KEN/2021
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
Urban Mixed Migration – Nairobi case study
Source:
Mixed Migration Centre
Date of Document:
November 2020
URL:
https://www.urban-response.org/system/files/content/resource/files/main/148_urban_case_study_Nairobi.pdf
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
“We Are All Vulnerable Here”: Kenya's Pandemic Cash Transfer Program Riddled With Irregularities
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
20 July 2021
Author:
Otsieno Namwaya; Najma Abdi
Editor:
Mausi Segun et al.
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/07/20/we-are-all-vulnerable-here/kenyas-pandemic-cash-transfer-program-riddled
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Kenya. Addendum: Views on conclusions and/or recommendations, voluntary commitments and replies presented by the State under review
Date of Document:
6 July 2020
URL:
https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/44/9/Add.1
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
Snapshot of civil registration and vital statistics systems of Kenya
Source:
International Development Research Centre. Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems.; United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
URL:
https://crvssystems.ca/sites/default/files/assets/files/CRVS_KenyaSnapshot_e.pdf
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
Report of the Digital Identification Document (ID) & Citizenship Consultative Meeting
Source:
Kenya Human Rights Commission
Date of Document:
January 2019
URL:
https://www.khrc.or.ke/mobile-publications/equality-and-anti-discrimination/198-report-of-digital-identification-citizenship-workshop-naivasha/file.html
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
KNCHR Elections Monitoring Strategy (2022 General Elections-From Pre-poll to Post-poll): ‘Buffering the Inherent Universal Suffrage Rights'
Source:
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
URL:
https://www.knchr.org/Portals/0/2022%20KNCHR%20%20Election%20Strategy_A5.pdf
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
Kenya's 2022 Election: High Stakes. Africa Report N°182.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
9 June 2022
URL:
https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-africa/kenya/b182-kenyas-2022-election-high-stakes
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
JUST IN — William Ruto declared Kenya's presidential race winner after chaos over vote count
Date of Document:
15 August 2022
URL:
https://www.dw.com/en/just-in-william-ruto-declared-kenyas-presidential-race-winner-after-chaos-over-vote-count/a-62806606
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Protecting the Family in the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic: Addressing the Escalating Cases of Gender-Based Violence, Girl Child Disempowerment and Violation of Children Rights in Kenya
Source:
Kenya National Crime Research Centre
URL:
http://www.crimeresearch.go.ke/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Report-on-Protecting-the-Family-in-the-Time-of-Covid-19-Pandemic-6th-August-2020.pdf
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
Information on Kenya for Consideration by the Committee against Torture at its 73rd Session
Date of Document:
18 March 2022
URL:
https://equalitynow.storage.googleapis.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/22231434/CAT-Kenya-submission-.pdf
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
“I Had Nowhere to Go” Violence Against Women and Girls During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Kenya
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
21 September 2021
Author:
Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu; Lydia Muthiani
Editor:
Heather Barr; Agnes Odhiambo
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/09/21/i-had-nowhere-go/violence-against-women-and-girls-during-covid-19-pandemic-kenya
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
Sexual Violence as a Political Tool During Elections in Kenya: State Actions Needed Ahead of the 2022 Polls
Source:
International Federation for Human Rights
Date of Document:
December 2021
URL:
https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/554039952-rapkenya-sgbv778a.pdf
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Kenya – Joint Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women on the Femicide Watch Initiative
Source:
Equality Now et al.
Date of Document:
30 April 2021
URL:
https://live-equality-now.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Equality-Now-submission_Taking-stock-of-the-Femicide-Watch-Initiative-in-Kenya.pdf
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Input or Special Rapporteur's Report on Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girl
Source:
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Date of Document:
31 January 2022
URL:
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/Kenya-human-rights.pdf
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Kenya: LGBTQI+ rights must be championed by civil society
Date of Document:
17 May 2022
URL:
https://www.article19.org/resources/kenya-lgbtqi-rights-must-be-championed-by-civil-society/
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
Clan Conflict and Violent Extremism in the North-Eastern Counties of Kenya
Source:
Royal United Services Institute
Date of Document:
June 2019
Author:
Gayatri Sahgal et al.
URL:
https://static.rusi.org/20190628_cr_clan_conflict_and_violent_extremism.pdf
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
Report on the Urban Safety Governance Assessment in Mathare, Nairobi City. Pilot study.
Source:
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Date of Document:
July 2020
URL:
https://www.unodc.org/pdf/criminal_justice/UrbanSafety/Report/USGA_UNODCity_Nairobi_Final_Report.pdf
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
The politics of crime: Kenya's gang phenomenon
Source:
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
Date of Document:
November 2020
Author:
Simone Haysom; Ken Opala
URL:
https://globalinitiative.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/The-politics-of-crime-Kenyas-Gang-Phenomenon_GITOCESAObs.pdf
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
The National Police Service Annual Report 2020
Source:
Kenya. National Police Service.
URL:
https://www.nationalpolice.go.ke/crime-statistics.html?download=89:nps-annual-report-2020
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Kenya now a key transit point for south-bound migrants
Source:
Institute for Security Studies et al.
Date of Document:
July 2019
URL:
https://enactafrica.org/enact-observer/kenya-now-a-key-transit-point-for-south-bound-migrants
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Corruption and devolution in Kenya. U4 Helpdesk Answer 2021.
Source:
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre; Transparency International
Date of Document:
23 April 2021
URL:
https://knowledgehub.transparency.org/assets/uploads/kproducts/Kenya-2021_Corruption-and-devolution.pdf
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Kenya: Police Impunity Raises Election Risk
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
1 August 2022
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/08/02/kenya-police-impunity-raises-election-risk
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: The Death Penalty
Source:
The Advocates for Human Rights et al.
Date of Document:
18 March 2022
URL:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CAT/Shared%20Documents/KEN/INT_CAT_CSS_KEN_48237_E.docx
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Report to the Committee Against Torture on the review of Kenya's third periodic report on the implementation of the provisions of the convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and/or punishment
Source:
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Date of Document:
March 2022
URL:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CAT/Shared%20Documents/KEN/INT_CAT_NHS_KEN_48241_E.docx
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Penal Code Chapter 63: Revised Edition 2012
URL:
https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/28595/115477/F-857725769/KEN28595.pdf
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
Changing Times: Covid -19 and Access to Justice in Kenya
Source:
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.
URL:
https://www.knchr.org/Portals/0/KNCHR_Covid-19_Access-to-Justice_B5.pdf
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
Kenya has tried to reform its police force, but it's left gaps for abuse
Date of Document:
3 February 2022
Author:
Douglas Lucas Kivoi
URL:
https://theconversation.com/kenya-has-tried-to-reform-its-police-force-but-its-left-gaps-for-abuse-176044
Accessed Date:
3 August 2022
Title:
Digital Space Case Digest
Source:
Civil Society Reference Group (CSRG)
Date of Document:
December 2020
Author:
Faith Kisinga Gitonga
URL:
https://www.khrc.or.ke/publications/231-digital-space-case-digest/file.html
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Combined eighth and ninth periodic report submitted by Kenya under article 9 of the Convention, due in 2020: International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Date of Document:
16 February 2022
URL:
http://undocs.org/en/CERD/C/KEN/8-9
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
The Pemba Minority Stateless in Kenya
Source:
Global Human Rights Defence
Date of Document:
29 June 2021
URL:
https://ghrd.org/the-pemba-minority-stateless-in-kenya/#:~:text=Kenya%20is%20home%20to%20an,through%20fishing%20and%20subsistence%20farming.
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Conserving the Mau-Forest: The Ogieks fight for their rights
Source:
Global Human Rights Defence
Author:
Dorá Horvath; Fairuz Sewbaks
URL:
https://ghrd.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Conserving-the-Mau-Forest-the-Ogieks-fight-for-their-rights-geconverteerd.pdf
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
Migration Profile of Kenya
Source:
Migrants & Refugees
Date of Document:
December 2020
URL:
https://migrants-refugees.va/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2020-CP-Kenya-EN.pdf
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
Title:
A survey report on the status of migrants in places of detention in Kenya
Source:
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Date of Document:
October 2020
Author:
Veronica Mwangi; Amos Wanyoike
URL:
https://www.knchr.org/Portals/0/A%20Survey%20Report%20on%20the%20Status%20of%20Migrants%20in%20Places%20of%20Detention%20in%20Kenya.pdf
Accessed Date:
16 August 2022
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