Since the beginning of the pandemic, Li Fung, Senior Human Rights Advisor to the UN Resident Coordinator in Kenya, and partners have joined forces to keep human rights a priority in Kenya’s COVID-19 response.

COVID 19 does not distinguish between people yet “yet the pandemic continues to unleash a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. In a powerful statement against increasing hate speech caused during the pandemic, Guterres said the virus “doesn’t care about any distinction.”