While some attempted to downplay the danger of using state security agencies to muzzle the Butere High School play recently, most recognised the threat it posed to our academic and artistic freedoms. This very issue continues to play out very dramatically in the United States, a country with a long history of academic freedom, in ways we can admire and emulate.

What can we learn from the 2024 youth led mass protests that significantly challenged state legitimacy in Bangladesh, Nigeria and Kenya?

2024 saw unprecedented strategic litigation around enforced appearances, arbitrary arrests and the right to assembly and expression.

Convened to demand the release of Dr. Kizza Besigye and all Ugandans unlawfully detained for holding a political conscience, Monday's...

Justice Jairus's ruling on ex-Police IG Japhet Koome’s culpabilityand next week's "Baby Pendo" hearing could be pivotal for police reforms

Selective police reporting will not reverse abductions, injuries and deaths. To avoid impunity, we need a more honest break with the past.

Kenya as an extreme sport. To win, we must organise our communities to claim our public institutions or lizards will become crocodiles.

How emerging youth leaders could retain their political influence and deepen their recent human rights impact before next General Elections.

Nairobi County Government's intention to mass dispose of 120 bodies could violate their dignity without public oversight

1 in 2 Kenyans still believe that there was no equality under the law. Can we expect any difference from the new police leadership?

Lets go beyond repetitive compulsion disorder and approach the current tensions differently.

A rare police interview, a death inquest and the re-opening of a social justice centre reminds us everything in Kenya is connected.