A list of reports based on reports from government departments of the United States, Amnesty International and the rights of many activists is that the implementation of the Declaration on human rights is a mere formality. List of children’s rights to education and women’s rights to dignity, as contained in the declaration of human rights are constantly violated by the police administration itself.
Human Rights of the Child, the disabled, housing rights, employment, and refugees, reproductive and trafficking have been violated on several occasions and there is no control over it by the administration and courts adequate system is not available. The national media and local NGO, continue to indicate that the excessive use of police force that led to murder.
Violation of the Declaration of Human Rights, including the abuse of detainees, harsh prison conditions, corruption, official impunity, arbitrary arrests and detention, prolonged pretrial detention, the damage to privacy and restrictions on freedom of the press, of assembly and association remain beyond the reach of courts. Among other violations of female genital mutilation and discrimination based on ethnicity and nationality, and restrictions on trade unions which are kept out of reach of the courts.
Kenya has adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, and is the Member State of the United Nations for Human Rights since 16-12-1963. Like all people in Kenya are entitled to all rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of race, color, sex, language, religion, political opinion or any other national origin or social origin, property, birth or other status. These rights adopted by Kenya understand that slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading that no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile, everybody in Kenya has the right to education.
Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education is compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
The Republic of Kenya is a member of an international organization founded as the Organization of African Unity to promote cooperation among independent nations of Africa. It has ratified several conventions on human rights and the UN has binding international commitments to respect the standards set in these documents that have universal rights. To the extent that Kenya has ratified the Optional Protocols to those conventions, the people of Kenya and their representatives are able to assert their rights by these agencies.
All the people of Kenya can turn to the UN Committee for violations of certain human rights. Since Kenya is a member of the African Union, its citizens and NGO can file complaints with the African Commission. They can also file complaints under the guidelines of the European Union (where the death penalty and torture) to the embassies of the Member States of the European Union and European Commission delegations. In case of rights violations by multinational corporations, they can also invoke the NCP in a member state of the OECD. Kenya has joined the international criminal tribunals and can therefore be called in case of serious crimes
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