Kenya women sue over sterilisation

A group of HIV-positive women in Kenya takes legal action against the government, accusing it of arranging for them to be forcibly sterilised.

BBC

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Kenya sterilisation woman speaks out

BBC News hears from one of a group of HIV-positive women who filed a case against the Kenyan government alleging they were sterilised against their will, because of their HIV status.

 

5 years ago

BBC

27 Feb

Forced sterilisation in South Africa: They removed my uterus

Bongekile Msibi is one of 48 women forcibly sterilised at state hospitals in South Africa.

 

10 years ago

BBC

Kenya arrests after women 'stripped'

Kenyan police have arrested about 100 people in the capital, Nairobi, after a second woman was attacked for dressing indecently, a police spokesman says.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Kenya apology over single women slur

Kenyan county governor William Kabogo apologises for suggesting that unmarried women are not effective leaders.

 

11 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: 'Women abducted' in Kenya attack

At least 12 women have been abducted during the latest attack on Kenya's coast, residents have told the BBC.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Mar

Kenya gains recognition for women empowerment policy

New York. Kenya’s affirmative action policy to guarantee women, youth and the disabled access to supply goods and services to the government was roundly applauded here as a first and a unique example to advance the economic status of women.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Jun

New Kenya takes shape as women win big in education

Girls are overtaking boys in nearly every level of education, a Nation investigation shows.

 

5 years ago

BBC

17 Jun

Coronavirus in Kenya: 'I couldn't let women die in childbirth during curfew'

Dr Jemimah Kariuki has been helping pregnant women in Kenya to find emergency transport to hospital.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Nov

Stripping women on Kenya’s streets a reflection of the country’s political risk

A few days ago touts in Nairobi attacked and stripped a woman for “dressing indecently”. With mobile phones everywhere these days, someone records it and loads it on the Internet, and it sort of goes viral.

 

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