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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and political rival Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Wednesday announced legislation establishing a commission tasked with investigating the political and ethnic violence that followed Kenya's disputed December 2007 presidential...

The Kenyan government on Friday published a bill calling for a constitutional amendment allowing the replacement of the controversial Electoral Commission of Kenya which oversaw the re-election of President Mwai Kibaki in December 2007, leading...

The Kenyan government Friday said in response to a report by the UN Committee on Torture focusing on post-election violence that occurred in the country in late 2007 and early 2008 that it was taking...

Kenya's parliament Thursday passed a bill endorsing the formation of a Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) to investigate alleged human rights violations committed in the country between Kenya's independence...

A commission established to investigate the political and ethnic violence that followed Kenya's disputed December 2007 presidential election released a report on Wednesday recommending the establishment of an international tribunal to try suspected perpetrators....

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faisal Joseph, counsel for a group of Canadian law students who recently filed human rights complaints against the Canadian newsmagazine Maclean's for its refusal to publish a response to a string of articles allegedly targeting Muslim...

Two judges of Kenya's High Court , the court's top judicial authority, were fired from their positions Friday after two investigatory tribunals found them guilty of corruption. The judges had already been suspended while their cases were reviewed....

Kenya should not grant amnesty to anyone who committed human rights violations in the wake of December's disputed presidential election , according to a report issued Wednesday by the Office of...

The Parliament of Kenya Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a power-sharing agreement between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga . The Kenya Accord and Reconciliation Act 2008 , intended...

The violence that wracked Kenya after the nation's disputed 2007 presidential election was carefully organized by "local leaders, politicians, and businessmen from all sides," according to a report released Monday by Human Rights...