Interview: Kenya’s Forgotten Rape Survivors (HRW)

Although it is more than eight years since hundreds of women were brutally raped during post-election violence in Kenya, the harrowing events of 2007/8 continue to affect survivors to this day. Destitute, in ill health and often ostracized by their family and community, many recall their ordeal as if it had happened yesterday. While the Kenyan government compensated people who were displaced at the time, many survivors of sexual violence have neither been compensated nor seen justice. Agnes Odhiambo, senior researcher in the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, interviewed survivors countrywide for her new report. She talked to Birgit Schwarz about their pain and why it is important to tell their stories.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/02/15/interview-kenyas-forgotten-rape-survivors