This being the month that we celebrate the International Women’s Day on 8th March, it has been quite refreshing to wake up to the news of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sentencing. Harvey was sentenced on Wednesday to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault. Finally the women get retribution for the awful crimes […]
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The I Am My Bodyguard team conducted a week-long workshop in Kenya targeting over 1000 children from low income areas. This target was achieved, as we were able to train slightly over 1000 children. Some of our training days coincided with the 16 days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, an annual international campaign that kicks
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By Yvonne E. Mwende “Orange the World: Generation Equality Stands against Rape”, is this year’s theme for the international campaign “16 days of Activism against Gender-based Violence (GBV) which starts on 25 November 2019 —International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to continue to 10 December 2019 —Human Rights Day. The campaign focuses
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By Yvonne E Mwende “…history despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again….” From the poem, ‘On the Pulse of Morning’, By Maya Angelou However, much we try we cannot rewrite history, but we can create new beginnings for a better tomorrow. On September 7, 2019,
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