Sextortion: The Silent Digital Trap Ensnaring Kenyan Girls
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
Sextortion — the coercive use of intimate images to demand money, sexual favours, or silence — has rapidly become one of the most insidious forms of technology-facilitated gender-based violence in Kenya. While women across all ages are targeted, high-school and university girls now bear the greatest burden, caught at...
Audio Brief By Josiah Omotto – KNIT Member
The Kenya National Interface Team (KNIT) has since 2015 been holding sessions aimed at addressing issues that have set Kenya on a challenging political and social trajectory since independence. The weakening of governance and social institutions that have resulted from this, threatens the very core of Kenya’s unity and peaceful...
Understanding Violence Against Women and Girls in Kenya: Why the 16 Days Still Matter — and Why Media Must Lead
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
Every year on 25th November, the world marks the International Day to End Violence Against Women and Girls, launching the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. In Kenya, this period comes against a backdrop of rising femicide, high levels of intimate partner violence, and an increasingly hostile environment—both...
Online Human Trafficking and the Digital Exploitation of Women and Girls
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
The digital world has become the new terrain on which old forms of violence mutate and thrive. As societies spend more time online—working, learning, aspiring, connecting—the same spaces have become fertile ground for criminal networks that prey on the vulnerabilities of women and girls. On this Day 11 of...
Unpacking Violence Against Women in Politics and Media
Unpacking Violence Against Women
The Mental Health Impact of Online Violence
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
Research across the world consistently shows that digital violence is closely linked to mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, and suicidal behaviour. A 2024 systematic review on cyberbullying and mental health, for instance, found high levels of depression, anxiety, stress, and suicidal behaviour among victims of online abuse. ...
Reclaiming the Digital Space: Ending Online Violence Against Women and Girls
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
As Kenya deepens its digital transformation, a darker reality shadows our progress: the alarming rise of online violence against women and girls. What was once seen as a fringe problem is now a widespread crisis affecting schoolgirls, content creators, women in politics, journalists, and ordinary citizens navigating an increasingly...
Tech Facilitated Intimate Partner Violence (TF-IPV)
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
Tech-facilitated intimate partner violence is rapidly becoming one of the most pervasive and least visible forms of abuse affecting Kenyan women and girls. As phones, mobile money, and social media become central to everyday life, they are also being weaponised by abusive partners to monitor, control, and intimidate.
For many...
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