(Nairobi) Amnesty International today released a groundbreaking report revealing the dire human rights and humanitarian crisis facing the people of Somalia.
As the new Kenyan coalition government prepares to take office, Amnesty International today called on the new government to ensure that those responsible for the human rights abuses committed during the post-elections violence are brought to justice.
Amnesty International members around the world reached out for the people of Kenya on 27 February 2007.
Amnesty International delivered over 10,000 petitions to Kenyan leaders President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga on Thursday.
Post-election violence in Kenya has forced thousands to flee their homes
– more than 1,000 people have been killed.
In early February, an Amnesty International delegation travelled to
Kenya, investigating human rights violations that have occurred during
the post-election violence.
As Kofi Annan announces the results of the political mediation in Kenya and the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights begins an extraordinary session to discuss the human rights situation in the country, Amnesty International called on the Commission and Kenyan government to prioritize an investigation into the human rights violations and abuses perpetrated during the post-election period.
An international day of public and online action will
call on the Kenyan
government to protect people from politically-motivated and ethnic
violence.
Amnesty International has called for the protection of several Kenyan
human rights activists who have received death threats in the last two
weeks.
Amnesty International today issued an urgent action calling for the protection of several Kenyan human rights defenders and activists who have received serious death threats.
