The Digital World – Fast-evolving Arenas of Gender Based Violence
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
On this fifth day of the 16 Days of Activism, 2025, Development Through Media (DTM) continues spotlighting one of the most urgent and fast-evolving arenas of Gender Based Violence: The Digital World.
As Kenya’s online communities grow, Social Media has become a powerful space where gender norms are reproduced, contested,...
The Rise of Digital Gender-Based Violence in Kenya: When Online Harm Turns Into Offline Danger
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
Digital spaces were once imagined as places of freedom—platforms where women and girls in Kenya could learn, dream, build careers, express themselves, and participate in public life without restriction. Today, however, these same spaces have become some of the most dangerous environments for them. A new frontier of 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...
Femicide and Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya: Unpacking the Numbers and the Crisis we Cannot Ignore
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
Kenya is witnessing an alarming rise in femicide and intimate partner violence (IPV), and the data—though fragmented—draws a painful and urgent picture. Civil society, journalists, and health facilities estimate that the country records more than 500 femicide cases each year. Between 2016 and 2024 alone, over 1,000 women were...
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...