Civil society in Turkana questions authorities’ silence as justice for femicide and GBV crimes is reduced to ‘a few goats’ fine in northern Kenya
A non-governmental organisation, Friends of Lake Turkana (FoLT), northern Kenya, is demanding urgent government action following three separate incidents that resulted in maternal death, killing and rape of three women in Turkana County. Director and founder of Friends of Lake Turkana Ikal Ang’elei says the incidents have exposed critical failures...
Freedom is coming: How Iraq’s Saddam Hussein neighbour Zainab survived violence to build women’s most powerful tool in the world
In 1991, at age 19, Zainab escaped Iraq through an arranged marriage to an older Iraqi man living in the United States. Her family saw it as salvation – a way out before the Gulf War made leaving impossible. Zainab thought it was freedom. She was wrong. The marriage that saved her from Saddam’s Iraq became its own prison. Her husband was controlling, isolating and abusive. She’d escaped one authoritarian regime only to land in another – this one domestic, private, and just as suffocating.
Young pastoralist woman joins tree-hugging frenzy to speak out against gender violence in highly patriarchal northern Kenya
An Isiolo resident, Batula Ali, who became emotional after seeing Halima, said many women in the county endure abuse without speaking out as a result of the highly patriarchal structure of the pastoralist society. Batula also warned against individuals who are trying to discourage Halima, saying labelling her as shameful only silences GBV victim’ even more. She called on women to speak out against the vice, calling it criminal.
In what might be shaping into a frenzy, young Kenyans are resorting to tree-hugging to campaign against economic and political ills
Mercy said alcoholism had taken a toll on him and he abdicated his parental duties including upkeep and school fees for them. She blames alcohol as the main contributor to domestic violence in Kenya.
Gender and Equality Commission warns cutbacks in capitation will result in education outcomes decline
Rehema Jaldesa accompanied by the Commission’s Vice-Chair Thomas Koiyer and Commissioners, Caroline Lentupuru, Dr Margaret Karungaru, Dr Purity Ngina and Michael Nzomo.
Gender-based violence and femicide are costing Kenya $317 million per year, taskforce says
Dr Nancy Baraza said Kenyatta University Women’s Economic Empowerment Hub (KU-WEE) Hub has confirmed the economic statistics that the country loses more than Ksh41 billion ($317 million) per annum because of GBV and femicide.
