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Devastating UK aid cuts are a matter of life and death for women in Africa - COMMENT: Slashing funding will not only worsen ...
In Kenya today, a woman can be raped, murdered, and buried without justice while the country’s political class offers little ...
These are the words of Rogers Omollo, founder and CEO of Activate Action – a youth-led non-profit organisation that supports ...
Kenya’s femicide crisis is so pervasive that even female police officers are not immune –– such as victim and mother-of-two ...
CNN takes a look at gender-based violence in Kenya through the lens of female officers working at gender desks who themselves ...
The brutal murder of Wanjiru Ng’ang’a sparks a bold reflection on Kenya’s femicide crisis, failed gender policies, and the urgent need to uplift both sexes.
Civil Society Organisations push for legal reforms to end femicide in Kenya Among the recommendations put forward was the establishment of legal and policy reforms to address the issue.
2024 saw a marked increase in women being murdered in Kenya despite a heightened awareness of the crisis and government measures to curb what the World Health Organization terms as femicide. This is ...
A surge in gender-based violence in Kenya, with at least 97 femicides recorded between August and October last year, has prompted women to learn self-defense. In Nairobi's Korogocho, elder women known ...
In this, the third and penultimate column in my series on ‘Confronting Kenya’s Demons’, I reflect on misogyny and the crisis of femicide in Kenya. My progeny includes two daughters, and so I write ...