Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published October 22, 2008.
The past 20 years have seen rape and gender-based violence systematically used as a tool of war. It happened in Bosnia, in Democrat Republic of Congo and more recently, in the post-election violence that exploded this year in Kenya. More than six months have passed since the end of Kenya's post-election crisis which killed a thousand people and displaced half a million. And now another alarming figure has come to light. Since the start of the year, Nairobi's Women and Children's hospital has treated 1700 survivors of sexual violence. Most of them are female, many under 18.
Health workers estimate that only 1 in 4 sexual crimes are reported, meaning possibly thousands of women and children in Nairobi alone have been victims of sexual violence this year.
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Arusha Topazzini files us this report from Nairobi.
