One of the most-pronounced appeals and recommendations that women rights organisations, in particular, have consistently made since the ‘shadow pandemic of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) emerged earlier this year are calls to have women and girls — survivors and those at risk of the violence and violations — protected through access to alternative and
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One of the saddest cases of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women and girls that I have lately encountered — during this Covid-19 pandemic — involves a mother and her 12-year-old daughter. And this most sickening attack of a sexual nature is perpetrated by the girl’s father, who happens to be her mother’s husband.
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When Wambo went public to complain about the behaviour of her elderly mother, it raised eyebrows among a group of her colleagues at work. They were startled…WoN Executive Director Njeri Rugene writes in Daily Nation…Click here for more But the huge response it elicited forced the colleagues to interest in the matte – quite a
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NAIROBI, Kenya Jul 2 – When police stormed an erotic bar in Mombasa, *Binsa was happy that rescue had finally arrived. WoN Chairperson Judie Kaberia writes on Capital FM. Click here for more…
