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From Outrage to Action: Global Protests Against Gender-based Violence Resonate in Kenya

By Inés M. Pousadela,  Senior Research Specialist at CIVICUS and co-author of the State of Civil Society Report 

10 December, International Human Rights Day, marked the culmination of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV), an annual global campaign that seeks to raise awareness of violence against women as a human rights violation and demand action to end it.

Around the world, there were few places where the call resonated more than Kenya, where this year evidence of a femicide epidemic became impossible to ignore.

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