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International Women�s Day � 8 March 2009

Women and Men: United to End Violence against Women is this year�s theme of the International Women�s Day. This was curved out of the recognition of the urgent need to bring women and men together in this endeavour.[...]

	Booming art and crafts business boosts women�s lives in Nyeri
	Women in Nyeri South District have renewed their energies for more viable projects, this time in the works of arts and c...

	Raising beyond the darkness of post poll chaos
	The darkest moments in history can be almost impossible to erase from someone�s mind. Not so for Catherine Gathura, a fi...

	KPTG: A Huge Number of Gender Based Violence Ignored in Waki Report
	The Waki Report excludes a huge number of Gender Based Violence cases that erupted during the post 2007 general election...

	IDP children�s feature: world�s oldest pupil, Kimani Maruge�s, former classmates speak out
	TEN- year-old Susan Wangui plays around with a red volleyball with her colleagues, they are all in their green school un...

	Cut in HIV/AIDS funding: IDPs dilemma
	After she lost her small sukuma wiki kiosk during the post election violence, Ann Muthoni thought the end of the world h...

	Women IDPs turn to stone mining business
	After all promises by Government turned to be untrue, Internally Displaced Persons uprooted from their homes in the Rift...

	Desperate for alternatives outside the North Rift: land, food and security issues still haunt IDPs
	Formation of land buying companies and business associations has become the norm in the North Rift as Internally Displac...

	Self-sacrificing mother to IDP children
	WHEN they arrived in the neighboring farm which is Ruring�u stadium in Nyeri Municipality nine months ago, the manager ...

	Tabitha Seii, A life of courage as a politician and diplomat
	The history of women�s struggle to better their lot, achieve equality and significant participation in decision-making i...

	First Lady: breaking silence with a bang
	The first lady Lucy Kibaki broke her long silence with a powerful message that is at long last seeing action being taken...

	Rape and torture: police and military at it again
	Barely two weeks after the release of the Waki commission report that extensively revealed allegations of sexual abuses ...

	Rape and torture: police and military at it again
	Barely two weeks after the release of the Waki commission report that extensively revealed allegations of sexual abuses ...

	Taskforce to investigate sexual crimes formed
	Commissioner of police, Major General Hussein Ali, has formed a taskforce to investigate cases of sexual crimes against ...

	Kenyan woman who fled with family to Tanzania to escape post election violence
	Those who read the history of the French Revolution of 1789 will probably remember the telling and prophetic remarks of ...

	Waki: Police Killings of Women and Children
	The Kenya police were either directly or indirectly involved in the killing of seventy-four innocent women and eleven ch...

	Rift Valley�s Leadership Gender Revolution
	The sprawling populous Rift Valley Province may be setting a Gender Revolution in elective parliamentary leadership in K...

	The Waki Report
	The report prepared by the commission investigating the post 2007 election violence was handed in to President Mwai Kiba...

	Civil Society Fury with Kriegler Report
	Retired South African judge Johan Kriegler led Independent Review Commission (IREC) betrayed Kenyans by failing to esta...

	Kones, Laboso trounce men to clinch victory
	Two women aspirants in the just concluded by-elections took the affirmative action campaign a notch higher by clinching ...

	Kriegler commission report finally available to Kenyans
	As promised by President Mwai Kibaki, when he received the report from the Kriegler commission on 17 Sep 2008, the repor...

	Kriegler commission presents its report
	South African judge, Justice Johann Kriegler, who chaired the Independent Review Commission into the 2007 General Electi...

	Teenage pregnancies in IDP camps
	Sixteen year old Ruth Njeri* has seen more ugliness in the last eight months than most people twice her age. Together wi...

	From the frying pan and into the fire: Central Kenya IDPs battling famine disaster
	From the frying pan and into the fire: is how one can describe the situation of the IDPs who went to seek refuge in Kien...

	Women from the semi- arid Nyeri North profit from alternative source of energy
	Living in an arid or semi- arid environment posses a big challenge in terms of food and water scarcity and escalates pov...

	Woman�s Crusade to rescue orphans in Nyeri begins to bear fruit
	Throughout her life, Veronica Mumbi Muhuri has had a soft spot for the suffering, especially children. Since her childho...

	Living well with HIV positive husband for over two decades.
	SHE is HIV negative but has lived with HIV positive husband for almost 20 years now. Jane Ngima Muriuki from Nyeri South...

	Flimsy records on women�s plight during post poll violence at Waki Commission hearings
	SCANTY information on the plight of women during the post election violence emerged during the public hearings into the ...

	Woman Crusades for peace in Kipkelion
	When Lucy Kirui decided to give a helping hand to the victims of post election violence, little did she know that soon a...

	Woman Crusades for peace in Kipkelion
	When Lucy Kirui decided to give a helping hand to the victims of post election violence, little did she know that soon a...

	Selfless dedication to caring for the Orphaned
	Driven by her love for orphans, one woman in Nyeri has devoted her life and resources to ensure that orphans in the area...

	Fighting the menace of Jiggers
	Jiggers have continued to create havoc in many lives in the rural areas. A number of school going children have had to d...

	Rising cases of school dropouts in Mount Elgon District worrying
	With the military security operation that was undertaken, fear, tension and anxiety that has bedeviled Mt Elgon and adve...

	Woman cries out for her lost twins
	Susan Tanui is confused and desperate. She is one of the women who lost touch with their children following the post ele...

	Courageous woman in a family of disabled
	When they got married 1994, Jane Wangechi thought that life would be better of than staying single and would now settle ...

	56 Year Old Mother Starts Standard One
	Age is just a number for one who is determined to acquire education. A 56-year-old mother in Nyandarua North district ha...

	Women teachers offer a lifeline to deaf children in Eldoret
	The post-election violence that Kenyans are still coming into terms with drove many Kenyans including deaf children out ...

	Hard times for women as they battle with food scarcity
	The prevailing shortage of food crisis experienced in the country within the lower parts of Murang�a district has highly...

	The plight of IDPs in Nyeri five months after the launch of Operation �Rudi Nyumbani�
	It is not business as usual for 30 families of Internally Displaced Persons camping at Ruring�u stadium in Nyeri South d...

	Prof Mabel Imbuga becomes second woman Vice Chancellor for Public Universities
	Prof Mabel Imbuga has been appointed vice-chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology for a fiv...

	Ten Years on: Dealing with the Terror Scars
	At exactly 10.37 am on the 7th of August 1998, a massive explosion rocked the U.S. Embassy building in Nairobi killing o...

	Federation of African Women Educationists (FAWE) holds 7th General Assembly
	The Federation of African Women Educationists (FAWE) held its 7th General Assembly on 30 � 31 July with the theme: Advan...

	Florence Jaoko becomes the new KNCHR Chairperson
	The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights has elected Ms. Florence Simbiri-Jaoko as its new Chairperson replacing Mr...

	Women join debate on the sale of Grand Regency Hotel
	The revelations on the sale of Grand Regency Hotel have continued to draw sharp reactions from members of the coalition ...

	FIDA to ensure Bills on women are passed in Parliament
	The Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya (FIDA) is embarking on a process that could see Bills touching on women issues ...

	UNHCR chief meets refugees, internally displaced in Kenya
	The High Commissioner for United Nations High Commission for Refugees Mr. Ant�nio Guterres has decried the deplorable s...

	Death claims Lorna Laboso
	Death has robbed Kenyans of a robust woman politician and a bosom friend to many. Hon Lorna Chepkemoi Laboso was until ...

	Lesson learnt from symposium on post election violence in Kenya
	A symposium workshop on post election violence between May 29 and 30 reflected on reconciliation, justice and peace as w...

	Government�s New Challenge in Relocating IDPs
	The process of resettling Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) dubbed as �Operation Rudi Nyumbani� may not be an easy one...

	Involve Women and Youth in National Reconciliation and Unity
	Speaking during a public forum on the future of Kenya titled �Consolidating National Cohesion and Unity� as spelt out by...

	Post Poll chaos were Pre-Planned says report
	The report titled, �Who is Guilty? Youth Perspectives on the 2007 Pre-Polls� reveals that though the youth participated ...

	Align Aid to National Priorities, Aid Agencies told
	Speaking during the African Women�s regional Consultative meeting on Aid Effectiveness and Gender Equality on May 26 in ...

	Harmony in Coalition Government is key to Economic Growth
	Kenya�s economic growth rate is expected to be between 3.5 percent and 4.5 percent this year. However, harmony within th...

	Priority: Resettlement for IDPs or amnesty for perpetrators of violence?
	Last week the question of whether youths arrested during the post-election violence should be granted amnesty took cente...

	Remove hurdles on the Women's Enterprise Fund
	On May 12th the Gender and Children�s Affairs Minister Ms Esther Mathenge called on women to take loans from the Women E...

	Embakasi by-election: Inviolata�s Quest for Leadership springs from Real-Life Experiences
	Inviolata Mmbwavi is in the race for the Embakasi seat in the coming by-elections set for June, and like they say: �She ...

	Esther Passaris braces for battle in Embakasi
	Ms Esther Passaris, formerly the Managing Director of Adopt-A-Light company is gunning up for a battle to win the Embak...

	The National Accord and Reconciliation Act could face challenges
	The National Accord and Reconciliation Act which saw the formation of the post of the Prime Minister and two deputies, p...

	Tread Cautiously on IDPs resettlement; Government told
	Men for Gender Equality Now (MEGEN) Coordinator Mr. Kennedy Odhiambo Otina said the IDPs were not involved in the decisi...

	Push for Gender Bills, women MPs told.
	Speaking during a breakfast meeting for women MPs hosted by The Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya (FIDA), on April 29...

	Resettlement of IDPs Critical in the National Accord and Reconciliation Act
	In a discussion forum dubbed, �The National Accord and Reconciliation Act: Can the Accord Promote Nation Building and Su...

	Resettling IDPs: Give Women and Children priority
	But even as the President and the Prime Minister hit the road, Kenyans will be hoping that indeed the exercise of resett...

	Five women take oath to become Ministers
	Five women MPs were on April 17 sworn in as Cabinet Ministers in the grand coalition cabinet. The others, Justice and Co...

	President names Seven women Cabinet Ministers and Six Assistant Ministers
	President Mwai Kibaki on Sunday, April 13, 2008 appointed seven women members of Parliament to the grand coalition cabin...

	OPINION Kenya emerges from a shadow of the precipice
	A state of uncertainty had continued to grip Kenya for weeks as violence reigned in following disputed presidential ele...

	FIDA outlines its role in improving the status of women
	The Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Kenya on Tuesday 9th April 2008 released its 10th Annual Report, covering the per...

	Fida: Train women on the court procedure
	Fida says the shortage has led to a backlog of gender cases in court. However, it is confident that if women were educat...

	IN�S ALBERDI Appointed as UNIFEM Executive Director
	United Nations, New York � The appointment of In�s Alberdi of Spain as the new Executive Director of the United Nations ...

	Reconciliation Debate:The Role of Women in Creating a Just Society
	On April 3, these issues were raised in a television debate organised as a collaborative effort of Kenya Television Netw...

	Bringing in the peace Makers:The role of women in brokering peace
	The oldest question about global conflict is why can�t we all just get along? But the second-oldest has to be what if wo...

	Coalition of Women for Peace and Justice: Looking into the future to save Kenya
	On Thursday February 21, over 150 women gathered in a City hotel to deliberate on Kenya�s post election situation and to...

	Karua electrifies House with her Knowledge and surefootedness of legal matters.
	MPs on Tuesday amended the Constitution to create the posts of Prime Minister and two deputies. The MPs voted to pass th...

	The League of Kenya Women Voters: A call to reform the legal framework on political parties Act
	The Political Parties Act came to question in a civil society meeting held in a city hotel this week organised by The Le...

	Smaller Political Parties Endorsed Woman for Speaker.
	If the proposal to get Hon. Njoki Ndung�u elected Speaker had succeeded, she would have become the first woman in Kenya ...

	The Role of Women in Kenya�s Mediation talks: Condoleezza Rice delivers US standpoint.
	The United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has asked President Kibaki and ODM leader Raila Odinga to work tow...

	Nominated Women Councillors:The Local Governmen(Cap 265)
	IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 26(b) and 39(c) of the Local Government Act, the Minister for Local Gover...

	Profile: Graca Machel
	Graca Machel was born in 1946 in rural Mozambique. She was sent to a Methodist mission school at age 6 and later went to...

	Post Elections Violence report: More than 400 sexually abused.
	A report released by Nairobi Women�s Hospital on March 12 details over 400 cases of sexual abuses during post-election v...

	Re-Uniting Families
	The independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU) in collaboration with Kenyans for Peace, Truth and Justice has set up a toll fr...

	Post elections violence: Puncture on Kenya�s wheels of economy deflates women�s labour force
	The Kenyan wage employment is disproportionately concentrated in the services sector: Services absorb 75 percent of tota...

	CSO�s Preliminary response to the Mediation Process in Kenya
	Civil society members, under the banner Kenyans for Peace With Truth and Justice and The National Civil Society Congress...

	Civil Society Is �Ready To Lead Kenya Out Of The Current Crisis.�
	They also want the imperial presidency dismantled, the public finance system reformed and devolution of resources and po...

	Kibaki and Raila Sign a power sharing deal.
	President Mwai Kibaki and ODM leader Raila Odinga finally on Thursday 28th signed a power sharing deal that had been shr...

	Ms. Naomi Cidi named new head of Adopt-A-light
	Former Deputy Managing Director of the Kenya Airports Authority, Ms. Naomi Cidi has been named the new Managing Director...

	Kibera: Community Based Health Centre receives donation
	There are three significant complicating factors within Kibera. The first is the rate of petty and serious crime. During...

	Human Rights Watch recommends prosecutions
	The new coalition government has been urged to bring to justice individuals responsible for the past episodes of the pol...

	Human Rights Lobby threatens to sue ECK
	Members of the civil society meeting under the auspices of Kenyans for Peace With Truth and Justice (KPTJ) have warned t...

	Senior Women Editors Campaign For Peace
	Reporters and editors are concentrating on covering politicians--giving them the tools to polarise the country even more...

	Kenya: Violence Threatens Education
	The post election chaos has not only put the lives and property of Kenyans at risk but also put on hold aspirations of p...

UN calls for protection of women against rape

UNDP has raised an alarm over the escalating cases of rape and related sexual abuses

Mediation talks: Women on the Teams

Find out more about the women participating in the Mediation talks
Kenya women of faith Network

Women drawn from across the faith traditions gathered to plead for peace and love to prevail in Kenya.

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The caravan will cover the Eastlands areas as they were worst hit by the post election violence.

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Strategic leadership development forums

The 2 day training aims to build the capacity of young women leaders to be peace builders.

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Capacity building for law enforcement agencies

This is a training for chiefs training in that will be held in Rift Valley province on 13th � 17th October at Merica Hotel.

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