Kenyan women demand justice over post-election sexual violence | Joan Nyanyuki

From Global development | The Guardian Tue Mar 25 2014, 07:00:02

Rape survivors sue Kenya's director of public prosecutions for failing to investigate atrocities after the 2007-08 polls

Six years after being gang-raped and beaten in front of her husband and four-year-old child during a wave of post-election violence in Kenya, Nancy is still awaiting justice.

If it were left to the country's director of public prosecutions, Keriako Tobiko, she would never see it. Last month, Tobiko announced that his office would bring no cases related to the 2007-08 atrocities before a new international crimes division (ICD) within the high court.

Nancy refuses to take no for an answer. On Tuesday she and other survivors of sexual and gender-based violence will be in a Nairobi courtroom, suing Tobiko and other senior government officials on numerous counts, including the failure to investigate and prosecute their cases and those of thousands of others.

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