Families let sexual offenders walk scot free as victims suffer

ICRH activist Topista Juma who advocates the rights of gender victims. [Maxwell Agwanda, Standard]

In a society where rape victims have been socialised to blame themselves and are shamed to speak out, it can be hard to seek medical attention after being sexually assaulted.

It is against this background that a recovery centre and a desk for sexual gender violence survivors was established at the Coast General Hospital in 2007. Since its establishment, the International Centre For Reproductive Health (ICRH) Kenya, which is supported by a number of partners, has attended to 7,761 survivors of sexual violence.