By Nita Bhalla, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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NAIROBI, April 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A sharp rise in gender-based violence in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted an urgent need for more shelters to help victims and awareness campaigns, women’s rights groups said on Friday.
Cases of violence targeting women and girls - including rape, child marriage and murder - rose 36% in 2020 from a year earlier to just over 5,000, government data showed this week.
The report released by Kenya’s ministry of public service, youth and gender was based on the findings of an investigation ordered by President Uhuru Kenyatta last year into rising reports of violence due to lockdown curbs.
3 Leading Litigators Join Dordulian Law Group’s Expanding Los Angeles Personal Injury Firm
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Dordulian Law Group (DLG) is the premier Los Angeles-area law firm with two decades of experience successfully representing clients in cases related to sexual abuse, personal injury, workers’ compensation, and employment law. GLENDALE, Calif. (PRWEB) April 19, 2021 Dordulian Law Group is pleased to announce the hiring of three new associate attorneys to our growing practice. Paulina Jaafar and Armen Khoshoryan are the latest additions to the firm’s premier Personal Injury Division, while Alex Valenzuela is the newest member of the unique SAJE Team (Sexual Assault Justice Experts) within the firm’s award-winning Sex Crimes Division.
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April 16 (Reuters) - Insurer Hartford Financial Services Group said on Friday it had agreed to a settlement with the Boy Scouts of America and would pay $650 million for sexual abuse claims associated with policies issued mostly in the 1970s.
Under the agreement, the Boy Scouts and its local councils will release Hartford from any obligation under policies it issued, Hartford said.
The Boy Scouts filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last February, amid a flood of lawsuits over allegations of child sexual abuse stretching back decades.
Apart from Hartford, insurer Chubb Ltd is also facing potentially massive liabilities stemming from the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy.