{"id":7082,"date":"2019-12-10T09:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T06:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7082"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:45","slug":"curbing-gender-based-violence-starts-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/12\/10\/curbing-gender-based-violence-starts-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Curbing Gender-Based Violence Starts With Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Pauline Ongaji <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the world continues to mark the annual&nbsp;16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, Kenya on the other hand has little to celebrate about when it comes to curbing violence against women and girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is as the number of gender based violence victims continues to rise. Last week the&nbsp;<em>Nation<\/em>&nbsp;published photos of victims of reported cases of gender based violence, and as usual, women and girls dominated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Shock <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While these statistics seemed to shock many, the fact of the matter is that these incidences continue to happen every day, before our eyes.&nbsp;One would ask why are these cases rising even in enlightened societies like Kenya?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shocking thing is that most of the time people see and delay to act or end up saying nothing to stop the perpetrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are quite a number of examples to justify this statement. A few weeks ago, the internet was buzzing after\u00a0a video clip emerged online showing this lady cashier who was attacked mercilessly by her colleague in a supermarket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.nation.co.ke\/lifestyle\/ongaji-curbing-gender-based-violence-starts-with-us\/1950774-5378960-kcuq38z\/index.html\">Read more&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Pauline Ongaji As the world continues to mark the annual&nbsp;16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, Kenya on the other hand has little to celebrate about when it comes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}