Open Letter to the DPP — Unlawful Detention, Injury to and Charges against Mathare residents
MSJC is still actively working to support Jacktone and Peter, whose cases are described below. Below is an open letter we have written to the […]
Dada Talks @ MSJC for Young Women’s Health, Safety & Menstrual Justice
The COVID-19 pandemic has made worse many of the social justice issues we do advocacy around. It has also unearthed many other issues that tend […]
Tuna Haki Pia Report: Disability Justice For Nairobi’s Informal Settlements
Over 15 months between March 2019 – August 2020, MSJC’s disability justice campaign worked on a report highlighting the many grave injustices that people with […]
Citizens’ Demands by the Social Justice Movement in Kenya
Nairobi, July 8, 2020 To: Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta President of the Republic of Kenya Harambee House Re: Citizens’ Demands WE members of the […]
Press Release: Saba Saba March For Our Lives – Tekeleza Katiba
30/06/2020 PRESS RELEASE SABA SABA MARCH FOR OUR LIVES: TEKELEZA KATIBA Introduction Members of the press, comrades in the struggle and community members, today we […]
Mathare Social Justice Centre strongly condemns the “visit” of known killer cop Rashid and two police officers to our centre on June 30, 2020
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 On Tuesday, June 30 at 11 am, Rashid, the known killer policeman from Pangani police station came to Mathare Social Justice […]
MSJC statement after Huruma Police Station Officers threaten Rahma Wako, Demtila Gwala Wairimu and Kimani Mburu
Mathare Social Justice Centre Statement after Huruma Police Station Officers threaten Human Rights Defenders Rahma Wako, Demtila Gwala Wairimu and Kimani Mburu 27 May 2020 […]
“Death by coronavirus or hunger?” MSJC’s Dennis Orengo on the BBC Food Chain Podcast
One of our ‘field marshals’ at MSJC, Dennis Orengo, was featured in a recent BBC Food Chain Podcast examining the struggles for food that communities […]
Water Scarcity in Mathare During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Nyambura Kamau, Coordinator of the Maji ni Haki campaign at MSJC On March 13th, Kenya reported the first Covid-19 case. In order to stop contracting […]
Urgent recommendations for a people-centered COVID-19 government response in Mathare
The Mathare-Special Planning Area Research Collective — M-SPARC came together in 2019, to try and bring about people-centered planning and upgrading in Mathare. A Mathare-led […]