Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has been urged to extend the deadline for victims of human rights violations to submit documents for verification, which expires today.
Early last month, the Head of State, through a Gazette Notice, directed KNCHR to submit a report containing the Reparations Framework within 60 days.
The Commission has already developed the framework and is finalising a list of human rights violation cases, currently undergoing verification before submission to the Head of State.
So far, the Commission has compiled a list of 1,244 victims. The list, now under verification, includes victims of extrajudicial killings, torture, abductions and enforced disappearances, evictions, sexual and gender-based violence, as well as loss of property and livelihoods.
Coast Civil Society Network for Human Rights (CCSNHR) Chairman Zedekiah Adika said the time allocated to compile the list is too short, noting it covers victims from the 2017 post-election violence to date.
