March 8 will be the International Women’s Day. That is when the global community celebrates and recognises progress made in relation to gender equality and equity in all segments of development. The focus will be to recognise achievements in ensuring women—the gender historically disadvantaged through discrimination and bias in all aspects, including economically, socially and
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Last year, like its predecessor 2020, presented a startling upsurge in sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), particularly against women and girls. Covid-19 has aggravated this situation with perpetrators of domestic violence, defilement, rape and all manner of abuse, including cybercrime, hide behind the frustration of the pandemic’s effects to molest women and girls because of
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We have ended this year’s observance of the 16 Days of Activism to end gender-based violence (GBV). The international community came together from November 25 to last Friday to escalate awareness, share information and innovate on ways to accelerate and promote advocacy on this worst form of human rights violations against women and girls. WoN
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We walk quietly into the room, cautious not to disrupt the young ones. They sit attentively, their minds immersed into their colourful beadwork. Predictably, our presence unsettles them. It is not easy, however, to tell from the expressionless faces of the nine teenage girls whether our distraction has upset them. WoN Executive Director Njeri Rugene
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At around this time of the year in 2019, I came across a deeply traumatised and miserable teenage girl. My encounter with the then-13-year-old Betty at a rescue centre for abused girls and young women in the outskirts of Nairobi is profoundly ingrained in my mind. The WON Executive Director Njeri Rugene writes in Daily
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