Sustaining the Momentum: Children's' Rights and the Role of Judiciary
Image on Freepik The Judiciary recently led by the Chief Justice Martha Koome, launched the Children Service Month. The objective of dedicating a whole month for Children Services was to ensure that the Kenyan courts worked in unison to eradicate delay and backlog cases involving children in the justice system during the month of November. The specific objectives for the initiative include: To ensure that all cases of children pending for 6 months and above are concluded, to ensure that all child victims have testified , to collect data and statistics of child offenders and child victims in the justice system and to utilize court annexed mediation to clear backlog of civil matters concerning children. The protocol guiding the initiative has given courts guidelines on how the main objective of t...