At a gathering of women leaders in Kenya, a quiet but significant turn was made: the conversation about gender-based violence moved away from policy chambers and toward the intimate spaces where violence actually lives — homes, families, churches, and neighborhoods. Government advisor Harriet Chiggai, speaking at the Women Achievers Conference, acknowledged that laws and institutions arrive too late, and that the deeper work belongs to communities themselves. With three in four working women having experienced abuse, and children bearing their own wounds of silence, the call was not for new le
Women Leaders Pivot From Policy Talk to Community Action on Gender Violence
Data indicates widespread abuse affecting working women and rising child abuse cases, with over 2,600 boys sodomized in Nairobi in 2023, and many survivors not reporting due to stigma and fear.