New study exposes gaps in media coverage of sexual, gender-based violence

There's failure to hold perpetrators of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and femicide in Kenya to account. [iStock]

A new study by the Aga Khan University’s Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC) has revealed that a persistent focus on victims and failure to hold perpetrators of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and femicide in Kenya to account.

The study report titled Media Framing of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Femicide in East Africa, reveals that perpetrator invisibility in coverage of SGBV and femicide perpetuates impunity.