Some transgender, intersex and non-binary people in the country say they have to bribe police, hospitals and landlords in ...

Ian Wafula Africa security correspondent, BBC News, Nairobi A Kenya Defence Forces helicopter ... for her work in addressing sexual and gender-based violence and pushing for women's political ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS ... address some of these issues.” The Sexual Offenses Act was passed in 2006 in an attempt to tame increasing cases of sexual violence. It names 14 sexual crimes ...

I’m working to help vulnerable women in my home country of Kenya, but millions around the world face deep-rooted injustices ...

Homa Bay is an old lakeside town in western Kenya, where seagulls soar over ... of girls and women real so they can be safe from sexual violence, get an education and fulfill their economic ...

One year after war erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on 15 April 2023, Sudan ...

Driven by the horrors they face, members of the LGBTQ+ community within the camp have rallied together to form Kakuma Queers, ...

A Haitian human rights group releases a report detailing the violence unleashed by gangs who kill, rape and maim with ...

Kenya’s plan to lead a multinational force in Haiti as part of a United Nations-backed mission to restore order is facing intense scrutiny and resistance at home, even as violence in the ...

Exhumed bodies from a vast rural area in coastal Kenya have shown signs of starvation and strangulation. Cult leader Paul Mackenzie is accused of asking his followers to starve themselves to death ...

April 12 (Reuters) - EU countries on Friday put the military and special forces wings of Hamas and the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad on the bloc's human rights sanctions list for their ...