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Are there adequate laws protecting women from gender based violence?

Are there adequate laws protecting women from gender based violence?

There are more than enough laws that protect girls and women in Kenya; more than anywhere else in the world. Article 100 of the Constitution is among them and it is crafted in a way that suggests gender based violence is violence only when directed at women, not men.

And that is unfortunate because the boys and men are increasingly being targeted in the gender extremism. I can for a fact tell you that six men commit suicide every day out of this violence, which is often directed at them by their spouses and lovers.

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