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KENYA: How climate change is driving FGM and early marriages
By Sylvia Thomson CBC News producer & JHR trainer for the Canada World program When I arrived in Nairobi in early January, the local JHR team here was talking a lot about climate change and how it intersects with gender issues. It’s been eye-opening in the hot, rainless months since then, to hear stories about
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KENYA: How JHR is helping political candidate Agnes Nkanya in her first run for assembly in Tharaka-Nithi County
As Kenyans go to the polls in August this year, JHR’s Canada World: Voice for Women and Girls Rights is continuing to empower women political aspirants to enhance gender equality in the electoral process. JHR offers media literacy training and networking opportunities to women politicians to provide them with the knowledge and skills they need
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Afghanistan
KENYA: JHR joins women-led organizations and state agencies to celebrate International Women’s Day
JHR’s Canada World: Voice for Women and Girls’ Rights project partnered with women-led organizations in Kenya to commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day theme ‘Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow’ at a special gathering organized in Nairobi on March 3, 2022. This theme is particularly relevant to Kenya as the country marches towards its 2022
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KENYA: JHR supports introduction of new sexual harassment policy for media organizations
AMWIK Executive Director Judie Kaberia says that many female journalists quit the media industry due to sexual harassment. The new policy will help make newsrooms and the field a safer place for women. Journalists for Human Rights, in partnership with the Kenya Media Sector Working Group, has launched a committee mandated to address sexual harassment
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Afghanistan
KENYA: JHR supports new Nairobi law to increase funding for SGBV survivors
The Honourable Kabirou Mbugua, a member of the Nairobi County Assembly, said JHR played an integral role in enhancing the SGBV Bill that was passed into law on November 1, 2021. Kenya capital Nairobi achieved a milestone in the fight against sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) on November 1 when Nairobi County Governor Her Excellency
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NEWSLETTER: November 7 – 18 more vulnerable Afghans evacuated amidst mounting dangers in Afghanistan
November 7, 2021 This week’s highlights 18 more vulnerable Afghans evacuated amidst mounting dangers in Afghanistan NIGHT FOR RIGHTS: Hear from Afghan-Canadian human rights advocate Roya Shams Genders officers in Kenya get essential media literacy training JHR speaks up on International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists 18 more vulnerable Afghans evacuated
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