A raft of far reaching recommendations emerged during the 11th session of the conference of states parties to the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD)

The Commission attended the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Ageing that took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York between

The National Gender and Equality Commission joins the rest of the world in commemorating the Day of the African Child (DAC) 2018. The African Committee of Experts on the Rights ....

Women continue to be discriminated against their right to own land according to a new report by the Kenya Land Alliance. The Kenya Land Title Issuance Disaggregated Data Analy....

The National Gender and Equality Commission joins the rest pf the world as we observe the International Women’s Day 2018. International Women's Day celebrates the soci....

The National Gender and Equality Commission is aware of the Constitutional Petition No. 8 of 2017 filed at Machakos filed by Dr. Tatu Kamau who alleges that prohibition of FGM f....

The National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC) is established pursuant to Articles 59 (4) and (5) of the Constitution and operationalized through the National Gender and Equ....

The Independent Accountability Panel (IAP) launched its second report on Monday at UN Headquarters in New York. The theme of this year’s report was 

The National Gender and Equality Commission has observed incidences and utterances in the public domain that irrefutably border on blatant gender based violence and most of it d....

The National Gender and Equality Commission is appalled by the spiraling wave of violence following the just concluded General elections. We note that the worst affected are vul....

The National Gender and Equality Commission has been monitoring closely the participation of special interest groups in the General Elections both as voters and as candidates. W....

PRESS STATEMENT-JULY 28, 2017

PARTICIPATION AND INCLUSION OF SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS

Members of the fourth estate

We....

A report released by the Kenya Institute of management on board diversity in publicly listed companies indicates that representation of women in boardrooms has gone up to 21% in....

The National Gender and Equality Commission wishes to draw attention to the provisions of Article 90 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 regarding the election for the seats in pa....

The Conference of the Parties (COP), in decision 21/CP.22, decided to continue and to enhance the Lima work programme on gender, with a review of the work programme scheduled to....

The Nakuru-based NGEC regional office was operationalized in 2013 as part of the efforts by the commission to devolve its programming and research functions. The office ;

The Kisumu based NGEC Western region office was started in 2012 as part of the efforts by the commission to decentralize and devolve its programming and research functions. The ....

Between 2015 and 2016 the Commission has been holding consistent talks with UNDESA on promotion of rights of indigenous persons and their increased participation in the global t....

The National Gender and Equality Commission has closely been monitoring the Labour dispute pitting the Government and the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists U....

The National Gender and Equality Commission has written to the Media Council of Kenya demanding action against the Weekly Citizen Newspaper for publishing nude pictures of a wom....