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Africa: Why Attitudes Towards Sexual Violence in Kenya Need a Major Refresh
The Conversation Africa, 22 July 2018
It's estimated that 14% of Kenyan women and 6% of men aged 15-49 have experienced sexual violence at least once in their lifetime. In Kenya women and girls experience sexual… Read more »
Why Attitudes Towards Sexual Violence in Kenya Need to Be Changed
Most young men are socialised to be sexually adventurous and aggressive as a way to prove their masculinity while girls are expected to be chaste, domesticated and compliant. Women and girls who deviate from these designated roles risk disapproval from community members as well as physical and sexual violence, writes Cynthia Wangamati for The Conversation.
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Kenya: Don't Mediate Rape Cases, Wajir Woman Rep Tells Chiefs
Nation, 22 July 2018
Wajir County woman representative Fatuma Gedi has cautioned chiefs against mediating in cases of sexual violence meted on schoolgoing girls. Read more »
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Kenya: Lobby Proposes Tougher Laws for Male Sex Pests
Nation, 7 July 2018
An organisation in Kibera is proposing castration as one of the methods of punishing men who sexually abuse children as a means of discouraging the vice. Read more »
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Kenya: Drugs Fuelling Murang'a Rape Deaths, Study Reveals
Nation, 5 July 2018
A child is being defiled and killed in Murang'a every week as the vice threatens to destabilise an already fractured society, studies have shown. Read more »
