Last week was one of the most difficult ones for Teresa in recent times. Although related encounters have almost defined her life since she started running a safe house for sexually abused girls aged between 3-14 years, this particular case has been quite a challenge WON Executive Director Njeri Rugene writes in Daily Nation. Click here
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Sharon (not her real name) left her home in Western Kenya in 2017 to live with her paternal aunt in Nairobi. Her mother was happy that her daughter could finally join a good school in the city with the help of a ‘doting’ aunt. The opportunity came at the right time, when Sharon’s mother could
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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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