On the Radar: Court to deliver ruling in 2007 post-election sexual violence case

The Court of Appeal is set to deliver a landmark ruling in civil appeal No. E645 of 2021, filed by four survivors of the election-related sexual violence committed during the 2007-2008 post-election violence.

The judgment will determine whether the survivors will receive justice and if the government will be held accountable for failing to protect them and provide redress.

The case was initiated on February 20, 2013, when six female and two male survivors filed a petition in the High Court in Nairobi, along with four non-governmental organisations.

These are the Coalition on Violence against Women, Physicians for Human Rights, the International Commission of Jurists-Kenya (ICJ-K), and the Independent Medico-Legal Unit, which joined the suit as co-petitioners in the interest of the general public.

On December 10, 2020, a Nairobi High Court ruled in favor of four survivor petitioners, noting that the government was responsible for its “failure to conduct independent and effective investigations and prosecutions of SGBV [sexual and gender-based violence]-related crimes during the post-election violence."

In 2021, one year after the trial judgment, a group of four survivors and civil society organizations filed a partial appeal, asserting that a High Court decision delivered on December 10, 2020 failed to recognise the government’s responsibility to survivors previously denied redress for the state’s failure to protect them from sexual violence perpetrated by non-state actors.

IEBC Interviews

The interviews for the member position of the electoral commission- IEBC- enters its 12th day today.

Those scheduled to appear are Joyce Kemunto Nyabuti Nyamira, Kagwiria Mbogori, Kennedy Kaunda Abuga, Leonard Njenga Kiambu, Margaret Nasambu Barasa and Martin Mungai Ndung’u.

The exercise, being conducted at the College of Insurance, South C, ends on April 24.