Rape, Mob Justice, Police Killings and the Draft
by L. Muthoni Wanyeki, The East African, Kenya - Amnesty International released a chilling report last week on crime and insecurity in Nairobi’s low-income areas. It focused on what, once pointed out, clearly should have been obvious —women’s vulnerability to sexual violence when living in crowded conditions and sharing communal bathing facilities and toilets.
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In addition, check out this great analysis from The Curvature For Some Kenyan Women, Toilet Use Means Sexual Violence!.
From the above blog: "Vulnerability here is created through a variety of means, including poverty, a lack of stability, a failure to provide adequate sanitation, entrenched misogyny, and so on. This is important to keep in mind, because proper sanitation — again, while absolutely necessary — is not going to stop sexual violence alone."
Posted by Zee | July 14, 2010 5:29 PM