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By Joyce J Wangui Former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Rashida Manjoo, with the Secretary to Kenya National Commission on Human Rights Patricia Nyaundi. Government should have been...

Over 2,000 sexual and gender-based violence cases that occurred during the 2007/8 post-election violence were never reviewed by a special taskforce established to look into possibilities of prosecuting them, according...

By Susan Kendi Over 2,000 sexual and gender-based violence cases that occurred during the 2007/8 post-election violence were never reviewed by a special taskforce established to look into possibilities of...

By Joyce Wangui Teen mother learns to love daughter conceived of violence and build a new life Many are the times Chichi* has wished her seven-year old daughter dead. She...

By Rose Wanjiku Come November, Jackie Mutere’s daughter will turn eight. Three times in the course of her pregnancy, Jackie tried to procure an abortion, but each time, fate intervened to buy the young...

Kenya and other countries in the East Africa bloc have condemned reports of widespread sexual violence, including torture, rape and gang rape of women and young girls, by soldiers and unidentified armed...

Hearings in a case filed by eight survivors of police rape, gang-rape and forcible male circumcision by civilians during the post-2007 election violence resume at the High Court in Nairobi...

More than eight years since violence engulfed Kenya in the aftermath of the December 2007 election, survivors of rape and other sexual violence continue to experience significant physical and psychological...

By Joyce J Wangui Dozens of women raped during the post-election violence still need counseling nine years on. To date, few of the survivors have received the comprehensive psycho social...

Rape, one of the grossest violations of humanity, has been hard to try in local and international courts for lack of evidence. By Joyce J Wangui A hush usually falls...