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Kenya must implement a formal moratorium on evictions following ...
31 January 2012

Amnesty International today welcomed the statement made by Prime Minister Raila Odinga on 30 January 2012, ordering a halt to all evictions until measures are put ...

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Kenya must end evictions as fears intensify
25 November 2011

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: AFR 32/007/2011. 25 November 2011. Kenya must end evictions as fears intensify. Amnesty ...

Public Statement       AFR 32/007/2011

Amnesty International statement to the African Commission on Human ...
7 November 2011

Amnesty International is concerned that across Africa hundreds of thousands of people are forcibly evicted from their homes by the authorities each year. The evictions ...

Public Statement       IOR 63/004/2011

Stop forced evictions: Protect people living in slums
3 October 2011

More than one billion people live in slums. Governments often forcibly evict people living in slums, driving them further into poverty and into more precarious ...

Document       ACT 35/026/2011

Kenya: Fire shows need for protection for slum-dwellers
13 September 2011

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 12 September 2011. AI Index: AFR 32/005/2011. Fire shows need for protection for slum-dwellers. ...

Public Statement       AFR 32/005/2011

Freedom for Kenyan activist charged over Uganda bombing | Amnesty ...
12 September 2011

The release of Al-Amin Kimathi, held for a year in connection with a bomb attack during the 2010 World Cup final, is long overdue.

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Somalia: International community must address the immediate and ...
28 July 2011

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 28 July 2011. Index: AFR 52/006/2011. International community must address the immediate and ...

Public Statement       AFR 52/006/2011

Kenya: Asylum-seekers risk deportation, torture
20 July 2011

A group of seven Eritrean refugees and asylum-seekers are at imminent risk of being forcibly returned to Eritrea by the Kenyan authorities. If returned they would ...

Urgent Action       AFR 32/004/2011

Somali refugee crisis: Kenya's opening of camp extension only a ...
15 July 2011

Kenya and the international community should do more to assist Somali refugees in Kenya.

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Response to the International Criminal Court (ICC) proposal to ...
14 June 2011

“Amnesty International fully supports the ICC proposal to hold the confirmation of charges hearings in Kenya,” said Michelle Kagari, Amnesty International's deputy ...

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