
High levels of violence against women and girls in Kenya is an ongoing problem that further increased during the pandemic. While official data records may be incomplete, there is a clear trend of increased violence against women and girls.
Indeed, there has been a startling increase in femicides - the intentional killing of women by virtue of their gender.
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