Women With Disabilities Face Rising Digital Threats Amid Widening Accessibility Gaps
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
Women with disabilities in Kenya are facing a growing wave of digital threats, including online scams, abuse, and exploitation. This is an emerging crisis that experts warn is being intensified by persistent barriers in digital accessibility.
While the Internet has become central to communication, economic activity, and social engagement, women...
Women, Marginalisation, and Digital Violence
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
The digital sphere has become an indispensable space for communication, self-expression, and political participation. Yet for many women across the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, this space is fraught with danger. Digital violence—manifesting through targeted cyberattacks, harassment, disinformation, and hate speech—mirrors and amplifies offline inequalities. It is a contemporary...
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...
Safeguarding Girls in Kenya’s Digital Age
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
On this day ten of our on-going series on 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, we shift our attention to one of the fastest-growing and least understood forms of violence against girls: online exploitation. The digital world—once celebrated for expanding access to education, information and entertainment—has become a...
Cyberbullying and Online Harassment of Women Leaders — The Digital Battlefield Silencing Women’s Voices
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
On this ninth day of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, we turn to a quieter, more insidious form of abuse — one that plays out not in dark alleyways or behind closed doors, but in the bright glare of digital platforms. Cyberbullying and online harassment have...
Deepfakes, AI Abuse and the New Frontier of Sexual Violence Against Women
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping modern life in ways once thought impossible. But alongside its promise is an unsettling and rapidly escalating threat: the use of AI to create sexually explicit deepfakes to shame, silence, and extort women and girls. What was once the stuff of science fiction has...
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...
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...