USIU Africa in Kenya is among the first academic institutions in Kenya to embrace the HeForShe movement. A HeForShe club was formed in 2016. Gender parity and sexual harassment have been the issues the institution faces and has taken on.…
Although Kenya has attempted to address rising incidents of violence against women by enacting specific laws and policies, huge challenges have limited the success of these laws and policies. Recent statistics received by the State Department of Gender Affairs are…
Today, Kericho county joined the rest of the world in celebrating 16 days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. The event organised by UN Women, Unilever Tea Kenya Ltd in conjunction with the County Government of Kericho,was preceded by a…
In the context of the project on Addressing Gender Based Violence in Schools in Kenya, UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa in Nairobi in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Teachers’ Service Commission together with…
Ventures Africa 18TH Jan, 2016Kenyan rape victims may finally get the justice they deserve by using an app available on Android phones to report cases. The app which was built to help victims’ families adequately report and follow up on…
Vice News May 17th 2016Police in southwest Kenya ignored accusations that one of their officers had raped a child, until a half-page advert in the country's most widely-read newspaper brought the crime to national attention.
Women struggle to seek help after sexual violenceDaily Nation 8th January 2017More than half of women who live in North Eastern region (57 per cent) and younger women aged between 15 and 19 are the most likely to keep mum,…
the STAR, 22nd October 2015. A 26-year-old woman is nursing injuries at the Nairobi Women’s Hospital, after being physically assaulted by her husband, from whom she has been separated for two years. Police at the Kiamumbi station, where the incident…
the STAR, 24TH November 2015. A police officer who allegedly attempted to extort Sh500,000 from a married woman was charged yesterday. Nicholas Omondi was charged alongside Henry Gwendo. The two are accused of demanding the money from Janice Mwende on…
the STAR, 2nd November 2015. Embu Deputy Governor Dorothy Nditi has urged rape victims to report rapists to the police and national and county departments that deal with such matters.