Victim Voices

The post-election violence of 2007/8 in Kenya affected hundreds of thousands of people across the country. The violence resulted into rape of women, defilement of children and other sexual abuses,...

By Journalists For Justice Hearings in a case filed by eight survivors of police rape, gang-rape and forcible male circumcision by civilians during the post-2007 election violence resume at the...

By Journalists For Justice Hearings in a case filed by eight survivors of police rape, gang-rape and forcible male circumcision by civilians during the post-2007 election violence resume at the...

Victims of the post-election violence have asked the International Criminal Court to order the Kenyan government to compensate them for all the harms they suffered and for the Trust Fund...

By Joyce Wangui Almost two years ago, President Uhuru Kenyatta issued a public apology ‘for all past wrongs’ by his government and his predecessors. For many of the over 40,000...

            By Joyce J Wangui    Pressure has started to mount on the Trust Fund for Victims to assist sexual violence survivors of Kenya’s 2007-8 post-election...

By Journalists For Justice “They did not have guns, but they promised they would protect me and I believed in them. I had seen the resilience of these women.” This...

By Journalists For Justice Victims of atrocities need to know the truth, however grim and appalling it might be, former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan has said. In reference to...

 Hollywood star Angelina Jolie Pitt has added her voice to the debate on reparation and justice for survivors of war and crimes against humanity. In Kenya, survivors of post-election violence...

Kenya’s meddling in the cases at the International Criminal Court (ICC) could see it ordered to pay reparations to victims of the 2007-2008 post-election violence after the collapse of the...