{"id":7477,"date":"2020-01-15T09:45:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7477"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","slug":"make-2020-the-year-of-success-in-war-on-gender-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/15\/make-2020-the-year-of-success-in-war-on-gender-domestic-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Make 2020 The Year Of Success In War On Gender, Domestic Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not\nhave an explanation for this but I believe this year will be the turning point\nfor the women\u2019s movement in Kenya. I harbour a lot of hope that the country\nwill make marked advancement in issues gender, such as equity, equality and the\nrights of women and children, which include their health and economic\nempowerment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Access Justice <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My belief\nemanates from the fact that campaigners for the rights of women, girls and\nchildren in general, specific organisations and civil society and even the\ngovernment through the Public Service, Youth and Gender ministry, have shown\nsome resolve and concerted effort to work for fairness and equality of genders.\nThey are \u2014 at least towards the end of 2019 \u2014 pulling together to ensure that\nwomen also sit at the decision-making table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will be important for rights campaigners to ensure that women take up their rightful space and be among decision makers on all issues that concern them and society.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of\nthe issues that must be addressed with more resolve, firmness and focus are\nsexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV), sexual reproductive health rights\n(SRHR), economic empowerment of women women\u2019s leadership and development and\nthe human rights of women, girls and children and their welfare, as well as\naccess to justice.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/opinion\/Make-2020-year-of-success-in-war-on-gender--domestic-violence\/440808-5418220-qpk1dwz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation I do not have an explanation for this but I believe this year will be the turning point for the women\u2019s movement in Kenya. I harbour a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7478,"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-7477","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\/7477","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=7477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}