The year 2024 saw a marked increase of women being murdered in Kenya despite a heightened awareness of the crisis and government measures to curb what the World Health Organisation terms as ...

Almost 100 women have been killed in the span of three months, the police say. Rights groups want President William Ruto to declare femicide a national crisis.

Femicide in Kenya: A national crisis demanding urgent action (Photo: Collins Oduor/ Standard) Earlier this year, Kenyan women and men took to the streets to demand action on femicide. It never ...

Kenya seems to be using South Africa as a model for tackling the femicide crisis. In 2018, South African women rallied under the #TheTotalShutdown movement amid a surge in femicide cases.

Kenyan police routinely fail to respond to complaints of gender-based violence, often considering them private matters, Betty Kabari, an activist with End Femicide Kenya, told Reuters.

Men who distance themselves from cases of femicide need to help address the toxic masculinity that feeds the violence.

Professor of Feminist and Security Studies, SOAS, University of London Gender-based violence is a major challenge in Kenya, which has recorded a significant rise in deaths of women and girls in ...

The Protests in Kenya Police in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi used force to break up demonstrators chanting "Stop femicide" during a rally in a public park on Tuesday.

Kenyan police fired teargas and arrested at least three people on Tuesday as hundreds protested against a wave of femicides, a Reuters reporter and human rights activists said.

Catholic churches in Kenya and the government of President William Ruto have joined in the fight against femicide – the killing of women and girls with gender-related motivations.

A few weeks ago, the National Police Service revealed a staggering statistic about the rate of femicide in Kenya. It was revealed that 97 women had been killed in the last three months.