Victim Voices

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...

 Victims of rights violations have questioned the government’s sincerity in establishing a Sh10 billion ($100 million) restorative justice fund while actively undermining court awards of compensation. Over 100 victims of...

 The Democratic Republic of Congo government should urgently reform the country’s justice system to better prosecute atrocities, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 102-page report, “Justice on...