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Kenya

Status of Ratifications
Reporting Status
Standing invitation to Special Procedures
(No invitation extended)
Voluntary Pledges and Commitments

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Kenya and UN Charter-based Bodies

Kenya and UN Treaty Bodies

Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises - Mission to Kenya (A/HRC/41/43/Add.2)

Report of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism - Mission to Kenya (A/HRC/40/62/Add.3)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation - Mission to Kenya (A/HRC/30/39/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions - Mission to Kenya (A/HRC/17/28/Add.4)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions - Mission to Kenya (A/HRC/11/2/Add.6)

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Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2022) CAT/C/KEN/CO/3

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2021) CCPR/C/KEN/CO/4

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2017) CEDAW/C/KEN/CO/8

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2017) CERD/C/KEN/CO/5-7

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2016) E/C.12/KEN/CO/2-5

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2016) CRC/C/KEN/CO/3-5

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Concluding observations (2015) CRPD/C/KEN/CO/1

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OHCHR in Kenya

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has been present in Kenya since 2008 in the aftermath of the 2007/08 elections’ violence. The Senior Human Rights Adviser’s mandate focuses on assisting national actors to comply with human rights obligations under international law and strengthening the capacity of the United Nations Country Team in Kenya to integrate human rights in their programs and policies. More about OHCHR in Kenya.

Contact Information

Headquarters

Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact in Geneva, Switzerland.

Africa Branch
Tel. + 41 22 928 9360

Field

United Nations Office at Nairobi
UN Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator’s Office
Block N, United Nations Complex, Gigri P. O. Box 30218
00100 Nairobi, Kenya