by Dr. Joan Nyanyuki When the hearing of the Case filed in the High court of Nairobi by the sexual violence victims of the post-election violence resumed for the third time, the Attorney General and the Director of Public Prosecutions requested the court for an adjournment of the case. It was their turn to cross … Read more
We the Coalition on Violence Against women (COVAW) wish to call the attention of Kenyans to the police vetting process. We encourage more public participation in the on-going police vetting process by lodging complaints with the National Police Service Commission (the Commission) on the mishandling of sexual and gender based violence incidents.
Press Release Nairobi, 21 January 2014 on Wednesday, 22 January 2014, four civil society organizations and eight individual petitioners begin their trial against the Attorney General and five other senior government officials for their failure to protect victims of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) during the post-election violence of 2007-8, their failure to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators, and … Read more