Initiative for Equality and Non Discrimination

04/08/2026

If you are in Amsterdam, please join INEND’s Executive Director, Essy Adhiambo, who is serving as keynote speaker and panel chair for a session exploring intergenerational grace, examining how different eras of activism can learn from one another and collaborate on movement-building without creating binaries, alongside fellow human rights defenders.

The discussion focuses on extending grace to outgoing founders by addressing succession planning, burnout, and the reality that veteran activists may lack the resources or capacity to provide traditional mentorship.

Time: 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Date: Aug 7, 2026
Location: 1.9 - Berlagezaal
Track: Heritage & Culture

We look forward to seeing you!

17/07/2026

14/07/2026

Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!
Authenticity Knows No Boundaries.
Embrace your uniqueness, live your truth.

13/07/2026

We stand in Solidarity with Tisa Kenya and the civic actors, citizenry, and human rights defenders whose safety and security are being undermined by the escalating deployment and impunity of state-sponsored and protected goons.

The Constitution protects our right to speak truth to power, and no amount of black suits, unmarked cars, or state-hired goons will roll back the democratic gains won by the blood and sweat of the Kenyan people.

We invite the diplomatic community and development partners to closely monitor the unfolding situation and to publicly report on the ongoing attacks in Kenya within the Kenyan civic space. Duty bearers must be held responsible.

The people of Kenya shall fearlessly protect and advance our hard-won freedoms, and continue to stand together as an unyielding wall against tyranny, even in the face of grave danger.

The people, united, shall never be defeated!

13/07/2026

Disability is NOT a barrier. Discrimination is.

Happy Disability Pride Month

07/07/2026

Saba Saba : Kenya's historic protest for democracy

The Bill of Rights in the Kenyan 2010 Constitution frames peaceful assembly, demonstration, picketing, and petition as tools of direct civic participation, not exceptions tolerated by the state.
Article 37 of Kenya's Constitution is unambiguous: every person has the right, peacefully and unarmed, to assemble, demonstrate, picket, and petition public authorities.
This isn't a favour granted by the state, it's a right the 2010 Constitution recognises as already belonging to citizens.
A government that treats protest as disorder to be managed is misreading its own founding document.

Power to the People!

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06/07/2026

On 12th July, we will be on the pitch! Wear that jersey and come support your favourite women-led team as we connect and hold conversations on civic participation.
Register Here:
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06/07/2026

We are on the Road! Mark the dates on your calendar for ***ringTheBallot II Campaign.

30/06/2026

Pride doesn't end with a MONTH. It ends and begins again in how we choose to show up for each other.

Q***r Kenyans are not strangers to our families, our streets, our churches, and our clans. We are already family.
For too long, "culture" and "tradition" have been used as weapons against us, as if love, kinship, and belonging were ever meant to exclude. But Utu has never asked whom you love before deciding you matter. Utu is the neighbour who shows up. The auntie who doesn't ask questions just sets another plate. The community that protects its own, full stop. That is the tradition worth remembering, not the borrowed fear dressed up as heritage.
So as Pride month closes for this year, we're not closing the work.
To our q***r family: keep building the safe spaces that kept you breathing this far. Keep choosing each other.
To our allies: don't let your solidarity be seasonal. Diversity isn't a June conversation; keep showing up in July, and the month after that and after that.
To our African siblings watching, listening, deciding where you stand: remember utu. Remember that our values were always wide enough to hold all of us.

We are family. We always were.
Happy Pride All Day Everyday!

26/06/2026

Happy Prideeyyy!

Just a reminder that there are Q***r People everywhere. Even if you may not know they are there, if you are brave and look for them, you may be surprised by how a community can exist no matter where you are-Chappel Roan

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