How Covid increased gender violence

Women who are poor and marginalized face higher risks. [Courtesy]

Covid-19 has subjected women and girls to a new form of socialization that negatively affected them and subjected them to the vicious cycle of domestic and gender-based violence. 

Participants at a three-day Kisumu Women’s Conference whose theme is 'Shifting the power a vital conversation about redefining women's equality, health and rights' blamed the justice system for failing to protect women who have been violated in communities.