It is now seven years since my colleagues and I released the Final Report of the Kenyan Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC).
In fact just the other day over 190,000 people displaced from that violence called on the Kenyan government to resettle them and implement the recommendations in the TJRC Report in order to prevent the possibility of election violence in 2022.
Dealing with all rights, not only political rights
The work of the TJRC, and our Final Report, include a number of important innovations and achievements with respect to the operation of a truth commission.
In the Report we link those violations to the more traditional violations covered by a truth commission - the killings, tortures, rapes, massacres that are both the product of these violations of socio-economic rights, and that contribute further to their violation.
The TJRC Report includes not only discussion of sexual violence (including its commission against men), but also an extensive discussion of socio-economic rights and women, including the feminization of poverty, disparities in employment, workplace abuse, lack of access to land, and reproductive health.
