27 sex workers killed in Nairobi as government sits on femicide report

Kenyan Sex workers held a press conference in Nairobi demanding the decriminalisation of their work to protect them while on duty. They claim that 27 women in sex work have been murdered in Nairobi this year.[Benard Orwongo,Standard]

Twenty-seven women in sex work were murdered in Nairobi in 2025, with SWOP Ambassadors recording 345 cases of violence against sex workers in the capital alone.

The deaths exposed how Kenya's laws criminalizing consensual adult sex work enable violence by denying survivors police protection and access to justice, sex worker advocates said Tuesday.