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The Right to Privacy in Kenya

PI submitted with its partners a joint stakeholder report on the state of privacy in view of Kenya's review at the 35th session of the Universal Periodic Review.

Key advocacy points
  • Kenya must review its legal framework to comply with the right to privacy including its laws regulating communications surveillance and intelligence activities.
  • Kenya must take measures to ensure HRDs and journalist are able to work freely and safely without being subject to surveillance.
  • Kenay must adopt a comprehensive and robust data protection law to regulate the processing of personal data, and protect people.

 

Advocacy
Post date
6th December 2019
35th UPR Kenya - cover

This stakeholder report is a submission by Privacy International (PI), the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders Kenya (NCHRD-K), The Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN), and Paradigm Initiative.

PI, NCHRD-K, KELIN, and Paradigm Initiative wish to bring their concerns about the protection and promotion of the right to privacy, and other rights and freedoms that privacy supports, for consideration in Kenya’s upcoming review at the 35th session of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review.

 

Attachments
Joint stakeholder report - Right to Privacy Kenya UPR 35 session
Location
Kenya
More about our partner
Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS
Defenders Coalition
Our fight
Defending Democracy and Dissent
Safeguarding Peoples' Dignity
Our legal action
Nubian Rights Forum and others V. The Attorney General (Kenya)
Our impact
Recognition of Privacy in UN Human Rights Mechanisms
What PI is calling for

Technologies, laws, and policies must contain modern safeguards to protect people from exploitation.

PI seeks protections for everyone
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People must be protected everywhere, under a universal rights framework.

PI has led the push for privacy to be recognised globally.
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