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Dinorah Martínez Gorbeña
Diana Laura Montoya Madrid
» East Africa
» South-east Indian Ocean
» South Tanzania
» West Uganda
» North-west South Sudan
» North Etiopia
» North-east Somalia
» 41,070,937 people
» 20,602,231 men
» 20,468,706 women
» Before marriage, Kenyansstill pay a dowry to thegroom´s family, consistingof a least 10 cows.
» Polygamous marriages are common.
» Although it is experiencing a relatively stable political situation, poverty and traditionalism continue to represent two serious obstacles to the equal rights of women in Kenya.
» The government political, the legislation and the media stimulate the women rights, but her social status it is lower than the status of men.
» Legal discrimination
» They can’t receiveinheritances
» A woman can’t be theowner of a land or live in there withouht a man
» Only the boys have theopportunity to go to school
» Mediocre services
» Reproductive healthservices
» Human rightsviolations
» Physical and verbal abuse
» Girls don’tdeserve to go toschool
» Poverty
» Thet prefer tosend their boysto school
» Masai tribes are famous fordrinking animal´s fresh blood, just like the Zulu tribes.
» Not only Masai males undergo the circumcisionrituals, also the females haveto undergo this painful ritualsby mutilating their genitalia.
» Procedure that involve partial or total removalof the external female genitalia or other injuryto the female genital organs for non-medical reasons
» 50% of the women suffer this procedure
» 70% of the analfabets in Kenya are women
» 75% of the farmworkers are women
» Maendeleo Ya Wanawake
» 1329 cases of rape in 2010
» The punishment doesn’t exceed 10 years
» The law approves the women rape
» Child prostitution
» http://www.afrol.com/es/Categorias/Mujeres/kenia.htm
» http://www.indexmundi.com/es/kenia/poblacion_perfil.html
» http://www.creawkenya.org/creaw-publications/the-status-of-women-and-girls-in-kenya.html
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