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‘I want to be mentored by you,’ Zimbabwe First Lady tells Margaret Kenyatta
By PSCU,
1855, November 15, 2018 (EAT)
First Lady Margaret Kenyatta on Wednesday hosted her visiting Zimbabwe counterpart Auxillia Mnangagwa at State House, Nairobi. The two first ladies...
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Teenager beheaded in southern India in caste-based violence
By CNN,
944, November 3, 2018 (EAT)
Concerns about caste-based violence in India are growing after a 13-year-old girl from a lower caste was beheaded in one of the country's southern sta...
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‘We are at the mercy of men’: Reports of rape and sexual abuse in North Korea
By CNN,
914, November 2, 2018 (EAT)
Harrowing accounts of widespread sexual abuse allegedly carried out by North Korean officials against ordinary women have been laid out in a new repor...
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‘We are at the mercy of men’: Reports of rape and sexual abuse in North Korea
By CNN,
838, November 1, 2018 (EAT)
Harrowing accounts of widespread sexual abuse allegedly carried out by North Korean officials against ordinary women have been laid out in a new repor...
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Awaiting trial, Diane Rwigara says she’s determined to hold Rwandan gov’t accountable
By CNN,
959, October 11, 2018 (EAT)
Diane Rwigara, a leading critic of Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, spent more than a year in prison before she was released on bail Friday. Now, as...
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Women MPs demand justice over Sharon Otieno murder
By Citizen Team,
1957, September 11, 2018 (EAT)
By Benson Nyaga and Johnson Mureithi Female Members of Parliament have given the government an ultimatum of two weeks to investigate and arrest per...
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Student kills herself after rape in South Africa
By CNN,
2129, August 9, 2018 (EAT)
The death of a 23-year-old student, who killed herself two months after she alleged she was raped has renewed anger over sexual violence against women...
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First Lady Margaret Kenyatta meets with Prince Harry, rock star Sir Elton John
By PSCU,
2130, July 24, 2018 (EAT)
First Lady Margaret Kenyatta held extensive talks with Princess Mabel Van Oranje of Netherlands Wednesday, where they discussed collaboration between...
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Nairobi teacher arrested, confesses to raping pupils
By Lawrence Baraza,
1341, July 24, 2018 (EAT)
A teacher at Toi Primary School has been arrested for allegedly raping an 11-year-old pupil at the school. The suspect is said to have confessed hi...
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Kenya’s Douglas Mwangi feted at Buckingham Palace for slum project
By Mbuthia Bashir,
1319, June 27, 2018 (EAT)
Douglas Mwangi has been recognised for his outstanding efforts in reducing illiteracy and poverty in his community. The founder of Oasis Mathare ...
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Kilifi men ‘cannot buy sanitary towels’
By Citizen,
1428, May 30, 2018 (EAT)
By Abchun Abdi Majority of Kilifi county men cannot buy sanitary towels or talk about sexual reproductive health with their adolescent girls, a rep...
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Teenager sentenced to death for stabbing husband as he raped her
By CNN,
1058, May 11, 2018 (EAT)
A 19-year-old woman has been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing the man she was forced to marry, who she says raped her as his relatives held her...
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Uganda transgender men fight sexism
By Reuters,
1014, May 10, 2018 (EAT)
Shawn, a young transgender man, was sitting in a public minibus in the Ugandan capital, when an old schoolmate boarded and started loudly calling him ...
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UNFPA-Kenya among top best evaluated programmes in the world
By Heminigilder Mugeni,
1127, January 17, 2018 (EAT)
The United Nations Population Fund Kenya, UNFPA, has been rated among the top five best evaluated programmes globally. In a statement sent to Nairo...
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“Women for Women” fighting Gender Based Violence
By Heminigilder Mugeni,
1116, December 15, 2017 (EAT)
Gender Based Violence (GBV) is perhaps the most widespread and socially tolerated of human rights violations in the world. Kenya is not an exception ...
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Campaign against gender violence in matatus launched
By Wahome Gitonga,
1130, December 6, 2017 (EAT)
The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) and Equality Now, a human rights and gender equity lobby group on Thursday launched a campaign to e...
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Online abuse silences women and girls, fuels violence, survey shows
By VOA,
805, November 20, 2017 (EAT)
Pervasive online abuse and harassment pressure women and girls into censoring themselves on social media and fuel gender-based discrimination and viol...
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BWIRE: Informal sector hardest hit by political impasse
By Victor Bwire,
856, October 24, 2017 (EAT)
The current political tension in the country with related uncertainty including civil unrest, which is part of the democratic process, is having a tol...
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Humanitarian operations for Burundian refugees strapped for cash
By VOA,
1144, October 1, 2017 (EAT)
The U.N. refugee agency warns that funds for humanitarian assistance for hundreds of thousands of Burundian refugees have dried up, leaving only enoug...
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Study: Simple Therapy Eases Effects of Violence Against Women
By VOA,
744, August 17, 2017 (EAT)
An intervention based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) was found to be more effective than traditional therapy in helping women struggling with d...
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