# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maina-kiai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:28:26.638Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maina-kiai"
name: "Maina Kìai"
slug: "maina-kiai"
description: "Maina Kìai is a Kenyan lawyer and human rights activist who formerly served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association from May 1, 2011, to April 30, 2017. Between 2018 and 2024, he headed Human Rights Watch's Alliances and Partnerships program."
tagline: "Kenyan lawyer and human rights activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maina_Kiai_in_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.04
  momentum:             2.5
  historical:           8.139813333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Maina Kiai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "ماينا كياى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maina_Kiai"
    title: "Maina Kiai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maina_K%C3%ACai"
    title: "Maina Kìai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maina_Kiai"
    title: "Maina Kiai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maina_Kiai"
    title: "Maina Kiai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maina_Kiai"
    title: "Maina Kiai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%B6%D5%A1_%D4%BF%D5%AB%D5%A1%D5%B5"
    title: "Մայնա Կիայ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maina_Kiai"
    title: "Maina Kiai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maina_Kiai"
    title: "Maina Kiai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17068162"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump