Kenya ordered to pay sex attack survivors
Date: Dec 10, 2020
The High Court in Kenya has ordered the government to give compensation of about $30 000 each to four people for failing to protect them from sexual and gender-based attacks during the violence that hit the country after the disputed 2007-2008 electi
The ruling is seen as a landmark, with Naitore Nyamu-Mathenge, the Head of the Physicians for Human Rights group which supported the court action, saying that justice had finally been served.
However, she urged the government to take steps to prevent such violence in the future.
Justice, Weldon Korir, ruled that the survivors' right to life and equality had been violated when they were assaulted.