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Action urged on teenage pregnancy and HIV as new report reveals high rates in Homa Bay
By Citizen Reporter,
1116, November 27, 2020 (EAT)
Gender inequality, difficulties in accessing services and poverty are fuelling high rates of unintended pregnancies and HIV in Homa Bay, Western Kenya...
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Kenya’s LGBTQ community faces increased abuse during pandemic
By VOA,
1059, November 26, 2020 (EAT)
Kenya has acknowledged that COVID-19 restrictions are fueling cases of gender-based-violence but has been less open on abuses against the LGBTQ commun...
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Activists demand Kenya’s withdrawal from Geneva Consensus Declaration over women’s human rights
By Citizen Reporter,
1510, November 12, 2020 (EAT)
21 Kenyan civil society groups have petitioned the Government of Kenya to withdraw from the Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD). According to them, ...
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OPINION: Why we’re uniting in support of African girl leaders to beat AIDS, shift power
By Guest Writer,
1308, October 11, 2020 (EAT)
The International Day of the Girl Child on October 11 is a call for us to reflect on our responsibilities. 25 years ago, governments adopted the hi...
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School in Kibera to play key role in online education conference
By Citizen Reporter,
1020, September 1, 2020 (EAT)
The Project Elimu School in Kibera, Nairobi is to play a vital role in what is billed as the ‘world’s biggest education conference’. The scho...
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OPINION: The right to live free from violence is a basic human right even as we battle COVID-19
By Guest Writer,
1051, August 28, 2020 (EAT)
The right to live free from violence, to be inseparable from your right and need to keep your body to yourself, to walk unscathed from the fists of ag...
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857 girls aged between 10 and 19 years impregnated in Nyandarua – report
By Citizen Reporter,
1640, August 19, 2020 (EAT)
857 girls aged between 10 and 19 years were impregnated in Nyandarua between January and June this year, a report by the National council for popula...
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Michelle Obama and Melinda Gates: We can’t ignore adolescent girls in Covid-19 response
By CNN,
1109, August 8, 2020 (EAT)
Today should have been a school day for 15-year-old Fortunate Ayomirwoth. But for the past five months, her school has been closed. Fortunate now s...
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Providing women with contraception could save poor countries billions – researchers
By Reuters,
1104, July 29, 2020 (EAT)
Low- and middle-income countries could save billions of dollars a year in health care costs by investing in making contraception widely available to w...
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Atheists support Susan Kihika’s Reproductive Health Bill
By Citizen Reporter,
1633, July 12, 2020 (EAT)
The Atheists in Kenya Society has expressed support for the controversial Reproductive Health Bill 2019 unveiled by Nakuru Senator Susan Kihika. Th...
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Push for SRHR policies, legal frameworks to protect the vulnerable amid COVID-19
By Citizen Reporter,
1558, July 10, 2020 (EAT)
Initially, the awareness on women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) was more focused on the distribution of sanitary towels to youn...
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Three more people succumb to coronavirus in Kenya as 155 test positive
By Citizen Reporter,
1537, June 23, 2020 (EAT)
Three more people have succumbed to coronavirus in Kenya as 155 others tested positive in the last 24 hours. The death toll now stands at 128 with ...
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Liz Guantai among 117 young African leaders selected for Women Deliver program
By Citizen Reporter,
1743, June 11, 2020 (EAT)
Liz Guantai, a 28-year-old Kenyan lawyer, is one the 117 young leaders selected for the Women Deliver program that focuses on gender equality and the ...
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Let’s intensify efforts to end obstetric fistula even as we battle Covid-19, First Lady Margaret Kenyatta says
By PSCU,
1145, May 23, 2020 (EAT)
First Lady Margaret Kenyatta has expressed the need to intensify the ongoing efforts to end obstetric fistula even as the country battles the COVID-19...
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OPINION: Reproductive health in a man’s world
By Guest Writer,
1524, May 5, 2020 (EAT)
I do digital storytelling and new media social justice campaigns. Two years ago, the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (Femne...
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Africa CDC and AU must offer dignified, inclusive focus on women & girls in COVID-19 response
By Guest Writer,
1539, April 25, 2020 (EAT)
Without the full participation and inclusion of women within the COVID-19 pandemic response, Africa’s efforts to flatten the curve and/or wipe-out t...
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Plan International, Inua Dada team up to create safe spaces for women, girls during COVID-19 pandemic
By Citizen Reporter,
1132, April 24, 2020 (EAT)
Plan International Kenya has partnered with Inua Dada Foundation in a bid to supplement government’s efforts in creating safe spaces for women and g...
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OPINION: Let cities be livable for all, ensure equal access to services by women and girls in informal settlements
By Citizen,
1755, February 10, 2020 (EAT)
Increasing numbers of people around the world are for various reasons moving, both within national borders and internationally thus leading to rapid g...
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ICPD25: Leaders commit to ending maternal deaths, violence against women by 2030
By Girlie Kendi,
1420, November 12, 2019 (EAT)
World leaders at ICPD25 have begun to unveil their commitments to end preventable maternal death and stop violence against women and girls by 2030. ...
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Major traffic in Nairobi as ICPD hosts over 6,000 world leaders
By Citizen Reporter,
1303, November 12, 2019 (EAT)
Nairobi will this week be hosting 6,000 world leaders for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). Ambassador Macharia Ka...
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