Battering, Rape, and Lethal Violence: A Baseline of Information on Physical Threats against Women in Nairobi (Working Paper 13)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 24 November, 2020

Almost one-half of Kenyan women have experienced physical or sexual violence, including forced sexual initiation. Much of the violence is barely acknowledged, let alone investigated and prosecuted. Extreme and even fatal acts of violence—targeting poor women in particular—are common enough to be considered unremarkable, a non-issue for the media, the political class, the police, and by extension, the Kenyan state.