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Ms Gina Din appointed UNFPA Kenya National Honorary Ambassador
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has designated Ms. Gina Din Kariuki as Honorary Ambassador. Ms. Din will support the Fund’s efforts to... Read more
Women’s Empowerment Will Accelerate Kenya’s Economic Prosperity
When President Barack Obama made his first visit to Kenya as US President last year, one of the poignant messages he left was an exhortation for communities to shun cultures that degrade women and... Read more
Maternal and child health key to growth
Two out of every three cases of maternal deaths occur in areas affected by a humanitarian crisis or fragile conditions like North-Eastern Kenya where focus is being put to give pregnant mothers a... Read more
When The Menstrual Cycle Becomes A Question Of Human Rights
The onset of menstruation is a landmark event in the life of a young woman. Yet many complications and challenges accompany such an event. One in 10 adolescent girls miss school and eventually drop... Read more
Uncut women chase the blade
In Kenya, nearly all women have heard of FGM and almost 27 per cent have undergone the painful practice. Globally, it is estimated that between 100 to 140 million girls and women alive today have... Read more
Leading the response to child marriage
KONGELAI VILLAGE, West Pokot, Kenya – Married at age 9 to a 60-year-old man, Sarah Lotupokol, 15, knows how lucky she is. The help she has received from a group of women in her community to escape... Read more
Peering at FGM through the health lens
The fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is relentless with stories of girls such as 14-year-old Lororua Nasiiku recently fleeing her motherland, Samburu, to escape the knife. Partners such... Read more
The Tyranny of Violence Against Women and Girls: 16 Days Of Activism
According to the 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey of Kenya, 4 out of every 10 Kenyan women undergo some form of violence, whether physical or sexual. This figure is staggering and should... Read more
The world's most dangerous place to be pregnant
Mandera, Kenya (CNN)The hospital in this remote region of Kenya has no blood in its blood bank, and Fardowsa Abdi is about to die. The 25-year-old went into labor days ago. But with no medical... Read more
From despair to hope
Mandera in north-eastern Kenya has often been described as “the worst place on earth to give birth”. Mandera’s maternal mortality rate stands at 3,795 deaths per 100,000 live births, almost double... Read more