NGEC sounds alarm on gender violence, demands action

National Gender and Equality Commission members led by CEO Purity Ngina when they appeared before the Senate National Cohesion, Equal Opportunity and Regional Integration Committee at Parliament. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC) has raised fresh concern over the scale of gender-based violence in Kenya after new findings showed that 43 per cent of women aged between 15 and 49 have experienced intimate partner violence, while 13 per cent have been subjected to sexual violence.

The figures are contained in a new NGEC report examining school-level factors affecting girls’ access to quality education in marginalised communities, findings that the Commission says point to a wider national crisis placing millions of women and girls at risk.