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Kamau Ngugi, Executive Director of the Defenders Coalition and other human rights defenders during the launch of the report on the Trends of Civic Space in Kenya:An Assessment in Nairobi on November 26,2025.[Jacinta Mutura/Standard]
A majority of Kenyans believe civic space has worsened in the past two years, with declining confidence in constitutional rights, a new survey shows.
The report indicates that more than 55 per cent of respondents believe the state of civic space was “bad” or “very bad”.
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