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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Yvonne E. Mwende Consent is permission for something to happen or an agreement to do something. Consent requires respect and communication. It includes knowing and respecting a person’s own boundaries as well as the boundaries of others. Understanding consent means that a person has the skills to leave a situation that doesn’t feel comfortable, and
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Yvonne E. Mwende Being a survivor of sexual violence is a harrowing experience, especially aggravated by a sense or loss, of losing something that one can never recover. This loss can lead to a sense of hopeless despair, where one recedes into themselves. Perpetrators of sexual assault have an atrocious need for power, to control,
By Yvonne Mwende Notwithstanding significant attempts to curb Gender Based Violence (GBV), it still remains the most extreme expression of unequal gender relations in society and a violation of human rights. Arguably a major obstacle for the achievement of gender justice, posing a serious threat to democratic development and public health, and a critical barrier
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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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By Yvonne E Mwende Violence destroys lives. Globally, one in five women reports being sexually abused as a child; one in three women has been a victim of physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner at some point in her lifetime, this according to the Global status report on violence prevention 2014. Furthermore, one
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