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Domestic violence in Kenya reflects worldwide statistics in that women are the overwhelming majority of victims. Over 40% of married women in Kenya have reported being victims of either domestic violence or sexual abuse. [2] Worldwide, over 30% of "ever-partnered women" aged 15 and older have experienced physical or sexual partner violence. [3]
In Kenya, women are protected from discrimination by the law. These laws include the (2010), for instance, the constitutional provisions found in The Constitution of the Republic of Kenya as well as The Employment Act No 11 of 2007 enacted in (2007). [35] One such law is The Sexual Offences Act No 3 of 2006, which criminalises sexual violence.
The Act has been amended by a number of other Acts, including Act No. 3 of 2006, Act No. 7 of 2007, Act No. 6 of 2009, Act No. 8 of 2010, and Act No. 12 of 2012. [1] Section 13 of the Act, which dealt with child trafficking was repealed by the Counter-Trafficking in Persons Act, No. 8 of 2010, s. 5, which replaced it with its own provisions. [1]
Nonphysical sexual abuse (e.g., making sexual jokes) was more prevalent than physical abuse (8.7 and 6.7%). Girls were more likely to report educator sexual harassment than boys (10.3 and 8.8%). 12.3% of black, 12.2% of Latino, 8.4% of white and 1.8% of Asian students indicated that they had experienced sexual harassment by teachers.
One way of achieving this is for programmes that target male perpetrators of sexual violence to collaborate with support services for victims, which would potentially be a revictimization of rape victims and be a poor choice of action unless the rape perpetrator is highly contrite and apologetic, as well as with campaigns against sexual violence.
Physical sexual harassment against the victim's body part, sexual intention, and/or sexual organ with intention to impose victim submission (Art. 6, point b). Abuse of authority, power, trust, or privileges for gaining advantage to enable or commit physical sexual harassment against the weak, vulnerable, unequal, and dependent persons or group ...
The Elements of Crime establishes that sexual violence is: An act of sexual nature against one or more persons or caused such person or persons to engage in an act of sexual nature by force, or by threat of force or coercion, such as that caused by fear of violence, duress, detention, psychological oppression or abuse of power, against such ...
Marital rape was outlawed in 2000, [312] by section 2(3) of the Combating of Rape Act. [law 96] Nauru: Explicitly criminalised [313] Rape is a crime and carries a maximum penalty of 25 years' imprisonment. Section 104 of the 2016 Crimes Act [law 97] specifically applies penalties for rape of married and de facto partners. [314] Nepal ...