Kenya: Woman With 'Fatherless' Children Challenges Law

22 November 2014

A woman has filed a suit in a Kakamega court challenging a law denying children of unwed mothers the right to carry their biological father's identity.

The woman cohabited with a man in Luanda, Vihiga county, since 1999 and bore him two children.

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