From Outrage to Action: Global Protests Against Gender-based Violence Resonate in Kenya

10 December, International Human Rights Day, marked the culmination of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV), an annual global campaign that seeks to raise awareness of violence against women as a human rights violation and demand action to end it.

Around the world, there were few places where the call resonated more than Kenya, where this year evidence of a femicide epidemic became impossible to ignore.

Global campaign

The global campaign kicked off with mass mobilisations on 25…