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 The report’s aims are twofold. It offers snapshots of the extent to which Kenya’s Bill of Rights has impacted the lived realities of Kenyans during the first two years of its implementation (27 August 2010-26 August 2012). The report though makes the conscious choice not to undertake a blow by blow assessment of each Chapter Four right. Rather, it identifies key events in the lives of Kenyans during the last two years and provides a rights context to those events. The themes under which these events and rights are discussed are: livelihoods; justice; dignity; and participation and accountability. The report also proposes short-term and medium-term Interventions which both state and non-state actors should take account of to ensure better implementation of the Bill of Rights.
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 29 DAYS OF TERROR IN THE DELTA:KNCHR Account Into The Atrocities at Tana Delta
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, in pursuant to powers vested upon it under the KNCHR Act, undertook investigations on a suo moto basis, into the conflict experienced in Tana Delta. On 23rd August – 1st September 2012, a team was deployed to the region to conduct fact-finding in Tana River and Kilifi. Subsequently, an investigative team was deployed in the region between 20th – 30th September 2012, where the team visited Tana River, Kilifi and Lamu counties.
The KNCHR recorded 28 witness statements, conducted several group interviews with the affected communities and held meetings with different stakeholders, including state security agencies, Provincial Administration, civil society organizations, medical personnel and humanitarian agencies such as the Kenya Red Cross Society.Information and observations obtained from these two missions was complemented by secondary sources such as papers, journals, theses and other published sources obtained through desk-top research.
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 The 2005 referendum monitoring report: Behaving Badly
This report highlights the findings of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) in the course of its joint program with the Kenya Human Rights ommission in monitoring the referendum campaign rallies between September and the constitutional plebiscite of November 21st 2005. Both the monitoring of the referendum campaigns and this report constitute a joint project.
The referendum observation project was motivated mainly by the objective of seeking to begin ensuring accountability of politicians at the early stage of campaigning, on the basis that if our political class gets used to being held accountable during the campaigning period, they will accept it better if and when they assume office. If this happens, then the culture of impunity in Kenya, which is the reason for existence of various human rights violations, including grand corruption, will begin to erode.
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 Out of the shadows towards ensuring the rights of stateless persons and persons at risk of statelessness in Kenya
This research study examines the issue of statelessness within the Kenyan context. Drawing on fieldwork, it evaluates the human rights violations faced by stateless persons or those at risk of statelessness in the country. The study shows that these persons face difficulties in their quest to enjoy fundamental rights and freedoms relating to work, movement, education, property and health.
The study makes specific policy, legal and administrative recommendations to various state and non state actors that could alleviate these challenges as well as reduce the occurrence and the population of stateless persons or persons at risk of statelessness.
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 An Evening with TOM MBOYA
“Pan Africanism is changing the arbitrary and often illogical boundaries set up by the colonial powers in their mad scramble for Africa Many students of African Affairs are constantly asking us what sort of societies or governments we hope to set up when our freedom is won…It will not be a blue-print copy of what is commonly referred to as western.
What we shall create should be African, conditioned and related to conditions and circumstances of Africa. It shall be enriched by our ability to borrow or take what is good from other systems, creating a synthesis of this with the best of our own systems and cultures.”
Tom Mboya on July 1st 1958 at Makerere University
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 “THE MOUNTAIN OF TERROR” A REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATIONS OF TORTURE BY THE MILITARY AT MT. ELGON
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights has worked with the residents of Mt. Elgon in trying to solve the issues surrounding the allocation of the contentious phase three settlement scheme in the region which has resulted in torture and even deaths of so many people. The Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF) was formed as an armed guerilla militia in 2005 to resist government attempts to evict squatters in the Chebyuk area of Mt. Elgon district.
It has since been accused of killing more than 600 people, terrorizing the local population through physical assaults and threats and committing a variety of atrocities including murder, torture, rape, and the theft and destruction of property. It is estimated that more than 66,000 people have been displaced in an 18 month period.
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 ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN KENYA
Under Kenyan law, offences of murder, treason and robbery with violence, including attempted robbery with violence, carry a mandatory death sentence. In this paper, the National Commission seeks to demonstrate the urgent need for the abolition of the death penalty from Kenya’s statutes. This is because the death penalty is a violation of the fundamental right to life.
This paper outlines the case for abolition of the death penalty in Kenya from a human rights perspective, including the position of the National Commission on the subject. It seeks to persuade the public, and policy makers on the need to abolish capital punishment.
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