Motivated by the resilience and strength of African Women, her passion for promoting equality and the citizenship of African women is undying.  Her determination has earned her accolades and the opportunity to sit in several commissions and tribunals around Africa.

Such is the career of Betty Kaari Murungi a feminist lawyer in international human rights law which spans more than twenty years. She boasts of ten years of experience in the management and governance of non-governmental organizations as well as an extensive background in international human rights in the context of violent conflict resolution, international criminal justice and accountability mechanisms.

These coupled with her experience in international law and transitional justice issues, women’s human rights, constitutionalism, governance and social justice and philanthropy have catapulted her to great heights in her career development.

In 2009, Betty was appointed by the President as the deputy chairperson of the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) in Kenya that was formed to probe gross violations and abuses of human rights during the post election violence that rocked the country in 2007.

Besides these achievements, Betty is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya, and has been affiliated with the International Coalition for the International Criminal Court, the Truth & Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone, the Kenya Human Rights Commission and the East African Center for Constitutional Development, in Uganda.

“My activism is motivated by the resilience and strength of African women who have endured struggles including armed conflicts, exile, disease and impoverishment. Yet through all of this, their spirit remains resilient and renews itself at every turn. They know that women’s rights are human rights”, she said in a previous interview with the media.

Since 1998, she has been a consultant and legal adviser to the women’s rights

program at Rights and Democracy on gender‐related crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She is the director of Urgent Action Fund – Africa (UAF) a non-governmental organization whose mission is to advance the human rights of women and girls globally with a primary focus in areas of armed conflict or escalating violence.

She also serves on a number of NGO Boards among them The Kenya Human Rights Commission(KHRC), Women’s Initiative for Gender Justice(WIGJ), The Netherlands, Kituo Cha Katiba ‐ The East African Centre for Constitutional Development, Kampala, Uganda.

She professes membership to the a number of professional bodies among them the Kenya Bar, the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), the International Bar Association (IBA), the East Africa Law Society (EALS), the Federation of Women Lawyers, Kenya (FIDA).

In December 2003 Betty received the national honor of the Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear (MBS) for her work in human rights. Betty Kaari Murungi’s work mainly focuses on international conflict resolution, particularly in regard to justice for women in post‐conflict justice mechanisms such as the Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.