Guidance Notes For Gender Responsive Operational Level Grievance Mechanisms
This Guidance Note gives advice on how to establish gender responsive operational-level grievance mechanisms or mainstream gender in already existing OGMs such that business enterprises ensure access to effective remedy for business-related human rights abuses by all, irrespective of gender. The underlying aim of enhancing the gender-responsiveness of operational-level grievance mechanisms is to.. Read More
Respect For Human Rights: Corporate Human Rights Benchmark For Kenyan Companies
This report examines the state of human rights due diligence practices among the largest Kenyan companies, drawing on the framework provided by the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). It assesses the extent to which these companies conduct and communicate about their human rights due diligence processes, with a focus on transparency, sectoral disparities, access to remedy, and commitment to remedy adverse impacts. Download Report
Sessional Paper No.3 of 2021-National Action Plan.
The development of this National Action Plan involved an extensive stakeholder consultative process. The development process was led by the Office of the Attorney General & Department of Justice and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and coordinated by an inter-agency National Steering Committee.This Action Plan details policy priority areas that the Government will focus on in the next five years in a bid to ensure that all businesses including state owned enterprises respect human rights. The Action Plan consolidates the existing efforts in the protection and fulfilment of human rights by the state and other non-state actors. Download Report
National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights 2019.
The Government through the Office of the Attorney General & Department of Justice has developed a National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights, a comprehensive strategy for protecting against human rights abuses by businesses, whether private or owned by Government.The development process was led by the Office of the Attorney General & Department of Justice and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and was coordinated by an inter-agency National Steering Committee.
This Action Plan details policy priority areas that the Government will focus on in the next five years in a bid to ensure that all businesses including State Owned Enterprises respect human rights. The Action Plan consolidates the existing efforts in the protection and fulfilment of human rights by the State and non state actors. I call upon both levels of Government and businesses to put in place the necessary mechanisms to facilitate the implementation of this National Action Plan. Download Report
The Malindi Public Inquiry Audit Report: An Audit of 2006 KNCHR Public Inquiry on Salt Harvesting in Magarini, Malindi.
The Malindi Public Inquiry Audit Report: An Audit of 2006 KNCHR Public Inquiry on Salt Harvesting in Magarini, Malindi. This report is the product of an audit conducted in February 2017 by the KNCHR with cooperation of representatives from the salt sub sector. The audit is premised upon the 2006 public inquiry into allegations of human rights violations arising from the activities of salt manufacturing companies in Magarini in Malindi Sub- County. Download Report
Public Inquiry Report On Mining And Impact On Human Rights: Taita Taveta County
The extractive sector in Kenya has become a major theatre of human rights violations especially in the last few years. In the wake of this significance and the development of new standards on human rights in business, there is hence a critical focus on the extractive sector as a key violator of human rights, not just in Kenya but the world. In this regard and in exercise of its mandate, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights responded to various human rights complaints from the mining sector in Taita Taveta. Ultimately a public inquiry was carried out, in August 2016, to open up the investigations to the general public and all interested parties to make presentations on the status or experiences in regard to the enjoyment of fundamental human rights and mining activities in Taita Taveta County. This report documents the Public Inquiry that was held in Taita Taveta and makes recommendations that KNCHR believes will contribute to a transparent and accountable extractive sector in which human rights are protected and respected. Download Report
East African Roundtable for Business Leaders: Implementing Corporate Respect for Human Rights
This report has been written to document key speeches, discussions, insights and outcomes from a one-day business-to-business Roundtable entitled ‘Implementing Corporate Respect for Human Rights’, held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 8th November 2012. The Roundtable was aimed at business leaders from East Africa as well as multinational corporations (MNCs) operating in the region. The event highlighted the experiences of Kenyan businesses and relevant experts, exploring the value of and challenges related to corporate respect for human rights in Kenya and East Africa more generally. Download Report
MALINDI INQUIRY: REPORT OF A PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO ALLEGATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN MAGARINI, MALINDI
The Kenya National Commission of Human Rights undertook a public inquiry in July 2005 into allegations of human rights violations arising from the activities of salt manufacturing companies in Magarini Division of Malindi District. The Inquiry arose in terms of Section 16(a) of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights Act 2002 which establishes one of the Commissions functions as “to investigate, on its own initiative or upon complaint made by any person or group of persons, the violations of any human rights”. Download Report
Summarised Version of the United Nations Guiding Prinicples on Business and Human Rights
The UN Secretary General Kofi Anan appointed a special representative (John Ruggie) in 2005 to advice and clarify the roles and responsibilities of states, companies and other social actors in the business and human rights sector. Having the experience
of failure of the “Draft Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights” Ruggie engaged in an extensive consultation process in which all actors were consulted. These included states, businesses, NGOs with the aim of establishing a consensus between the actors. Download Report