SGBV Networks

22/10/2015

A notion has been formed that s*xual violence only happens to “certain people;” people who live in the slums, s*xual workers, women or party people. There is also the assumption that the perpetrators are men, people of low income, the unemployed and alcoholics. Sexual violence is a tricky subject th…

16/10/2015

01/10/2015

Please share your thoughts on this topic. Do you think social media increases the risk of s*xual abuse?

If your daughter is chatting to a stranger, it will not take long before they start exchanging compromising photos and even plan a meeting.

24/09/2015

http://www.kenyans.co.ke/news/class-six-girl-attacked-reporting-s*xual-assault-head-teacher

A teenage girl was attacked and brutally beaten for reporting molestation by her head teacher. She is currently undergoing treatment at Homa Bay County Referral Hospital, having sustained serious injuries on the head and right hand. The class six girl had reported that the head teacher had been s*xu…

24/09/2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29758794

Kenya's schoolgirls are fighting back against s*xual violence - by learning how to box in self-defence classes.

24/09/2015

http://www.irinnews.org/report/77102/kenya-s*xual-violence-continues-in-idp-camps

Residents in a camp for displaced persons in Nakuru, in Rift Valley Province, western Kenya, were deeply shocked when a gang of men attacked and s*xually assaulted five boys, but the health officials dealing with s*xual violence during the recent political upheaval have had to become immune.

24/09/2015

http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/09/23/3703633/nairobi-s*xual-violence/

Before the participated in the workshop, 80 percent of boys indicated that a woman in a miniskirt gave men tacit consent to have s*x with her. Afterwards, that figure dropped to 30 percent.

24/09/2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/10540379

Fear of s*xual violence in Kenya's slums keeps women from communal toilets and increases the risk of disease, a report says.

24/09/2015

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150609065651.htm

In Kenya, where r**e and violence against women are rampant, a short educational program produced lasting improvements in teenage boys' and young men's attitudes toward women, a study has found.