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  • Scarves don’t protect women

    New statistics released this week demonstrate violence remains a major threat to the safety and dignity of nearly 29 million Kenyan women and girls. Despite the creation of a large taskforce and the recent President’s Sh 100 million directive, the campaign against femicide needs a change of direction to effectively address this pressing national challenge.…

  • Femicide Is Not Homicide And We Need New Actions Urgently

    This year’s 16 days of activism against gender-based violence campaign seems set to take on greater significance. With the substantial spike in femicide cases, it is time for new agencies and actors to join the faithful feminists who raise awareness and demand that men stop killing women each year. Femicide is very different from homicide. Femicide…

  • Women and Girls at the Centre ; The Inequalities of Climate Change

    By Benta Moige Kenya has experienced unprecedented impacts of Climate Change for a while now,  from flooding across the country, especially in the Rift Valley, where rivers have been swelling, breaking banks, displacing hundreds, and destroying livelihoods, to extreme drought in Arid and Semi-Arid areas (ASALs). The consistency of these changes has slowed down the…

  • LETS INTERRUPT GENDER VIOLENCE AND NARRATIVES THAT SUPPORT IT

    The world is midway through the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. The recent conviction of Moses Gatama Njoroge provides the clearest example of why the annual awareness campaign is so important. Milimani magistrate Esther Kimulu sentenced Moses Njoroge to prison for five years without the option of a fine on December 1. While…