anti-femicide<\/a>\u00a0demonstration on Saturday was the largest event ever held in the country against sexual and gender-based violence.<\/p>\nIn the capital, Nairobi, protesters wore T-shirts printed with the names of women who became homicide victims this month. The crowd, composed mostly of women, brought traffic to a standstill.<\/p>\n
\u201cStop killing us!\u201d the demonstrators shouted as they waved signs with messages such as \u201cThere is no justification to kill women.\u201d<\/p>\n
The crowd in Nairobi was hostile to attempts by the parliamentary representative for women, Esther Passaris, to address them. Accusing Passaris of remaining silent during the latest wave of killings, protesters shouted her down with chants of \u201cWhere were you?\u201d and \u201cGo home!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA country is judged by not how well it treats its rich people, but how well it takes care of the weak and vulnerable,\u201d said Law Society of Kenya President Eric Theuri, who was among the demonstrators.<\/p>\n
Kenyan media outlets have reported the slayings of at least 14 women since the start of the year, according to Patricia Andago, a data journalist at media and research firm Odipo Dev who also took part in the march.<\/p>\n
Odipo Dev reported this week that news accounts showed at least 500 women were killed in\u00a0acts of femicide\u00a0from January 2016 to December 2023. Many more cases go unreported, Andago said.<\/p>\n
Two cases that gripped Kenya this month involved two women who were killed at Airbnb accommodations. The second victim was a university student who was dismembered and decapitated after she reportedly was kidnapped for ransom.<\/p>\n
Theuri said cases of gender-based violence take too long to be heard in Kenyan court, which he thinks emboldens perpetrators to commit crimes against women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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