Gender-based violence still high, hurts efforts to empower women
Gender-based violence remains a threat to women empowerment, despite efforts to deal with the challenge. This came out during a meeting meant to deliberate on how to sustain the campaign. Gender CS Sicily Kariuki yesterday told a group of women’s rights organisations of her encounter with a woman who had just been violently attacked. Kariuki said she was on her way to the Pan-African Women’s Conference at the Crowne Plaza, Nairobi, and had to stop and enquire from the woman, who was in distress, as she screamed and cried outside the Central police station. Upon enquiring what had happened, her security guards learnt that the woman had been attacked. “I saw this woman cry and in distress. I had to stop the car and urge my security men to look…
