Men have predominantly been victims of enforced disappearances and police killings, a report by Missing voices indicates.
In the 2022 data report, dubbed accountability now, out of the 22 cases of enforced disappearance recorded, 20 victims are men.
"This represents 91 per cent of the victims," the report read.
However, women accounted for 9 per cent with two cases.
The report further stated that a total of 130 police killings were documented, out of which 124 are men, equating to 95.3 per cent.
"Six of the cases are women, which represents 4.7 per cent," the section of the report read.
Notably, the report said youth residing in poor neighborhoods in urban centers are the most affected by police killings and enforced disappearances.
"The trend shows that male youth are prone to be victims of police killings and enforced disappearances," the report read.
In the data, Nairobi led in police killings and enforced disappearances with 53 cases followed by Lamu and Kiambu which took the third position.
"All the 15 killings in Lamu happened on January 17, 2022, during a multi-agency task force's anti-terror operation in Boni forest," the lobby stated.
Kilifi has the lowest number of police killings and enforced disappearances followed by Taita Taveta, and Migori took the bottom three.
"In cases of enforced disappearance, Nairobi leads with 11 cases, followed by Kiambu County with 5 cases."
