Human rights defenders, Civil Society Organisations and Kisumu residents joined Kenyans across the country to protest the increased femicide cases. The women condemned the alarming rise in violence against women. https://shorturl.at/ghZ09
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00:55 We will not be killed.
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01:00 It is an end to semifinal.
01:02 Mr. President, we are calling on you.
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01:06 --exhausts us from the constant and futile work
01:09 of trying not to be beaten, raped, killed,
01:11 and otherwise assaulted and violated by men,
01:14 mainly because we are women, heartbroken
01:16 from the sheer volume of names and stories of women
01:20 whose lives have been taken by men,
01:22 mainly because they were women, angry at the men who violated
01:26 and assaulted us, and take our lives,
01:29 but get to walk away scot-free or with just a slap on the wrist
01:35 because their victims are women, tired of victim-blending
01:39 narratives that are pervasive on social media,
01:43 traditional media, and utterances
01:45 from government officials, and that
01:48 blind our lives and timelines every time
01:51 another one of us is killed.
01:53 Despairing at the responses of chiefs, police, prosecutors,
01:57 courts, and other government actors
01:59 when we go to them for help and protection,
02:02 frustrated at the insufficient and alphabetical implementation
02:07 of laws that are supposed to prevent and address
02:10 violence against women, including genocide,
02:13 empowered by the Constitution of Kenya
02:15 and the collective decision that enough is enough.
02:18 We shall not continue to be silent
02:21 as we are being slaughtered.
02:23 We demand as follows.
02:24 Number one, that a presidential declaration of violence
02:29 against women and genocide as a national crisis,
02:32 requiring an emergency response, and reports on measures
02:37 taken to address both issues on an annual basis
02:40 as part of the constitutional mandate
02:42 steps of the national address.
02:45 Two, in response to the declaration of violence
02:48 against women and genocide as a national crisis,
02:52 we demand an establishment of a commission
02:56 on the elimination of genocide and violence
02:58 against women and girls.
03:00 This plan of regiments shall include
03:02 the development of a national plan of action
03:05 for the elimination of violence against women and genocide,
03:08 the commission of the elimination of femicide
03:10 and violence against women and girls
03:13 shall be composed of national African
03:17 and international feminists.
03:19 And this composition shall be 60% for women and 40% men,
03:26 which ensures its compliance with the two-thirds rule.
03:30 Its chair shall be a Kenyan feminist
03:33 of international repute with expertise
03:40 on violence against women, inter-ethnic violence,
03:43 and for femicides.
03:44 The chair, one of the two secretaries,
03:48 and at least 50% of the commission's members
03:52 shall be nominated by the organization
03:54 of the Total Shutdown Kenya and End Femicide Movement,
04:00 given the impact of existing institutions and agencies
04:06 on these crucial issues.
04:07 We demand an independent secretariat,
04:10 not one affiliated to them, the State Department's agenda,
04:13 or the advisory of the Office of the President.
04:16 None of the members of the commission
04:18 shall have criminal complaint.
04:20 Today, I can see you come out in your numbers
04:25 to actually talk about this suicide, the killing of women
04:30 within the whole country.
04:32 It seems that the law is not a constitute.
04:35 But you see the citizens coming out
04:39 when the government has been quiet,
04:41 it means that life is hard.
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04:46 I haven't seen you leave.
04:48 But out of this petition, I can see you have your head
04:52 in the right place.
04:54 Most of the times you leave these speeches,
04:56 that go nowhere.
04:58 But with the kind of petition that I've seen here,
05:01 it means that all the demands that you want,
05:04 the change you want, from the serious of the agenda,
05:09 to all the committees being mostly populated
05:15 in the women's community.
05:17 I sit in parliament, and I can tell you
05:20 that the women have a role to play.
05:22 You do not get anything through, because most of the time,
05:25 most of the committees are three-quarter men with only
05:28 a few women.
05:29 Even the ones that actually are there
05:31 to support the women's cause.
05:34 And it is time to change.
05:35 And the biggest challenge I have for my sister
05:38 is the one that says that we have enough women, enough
05:41 feminists, enough young people to populate this office.
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05:51 It is time that we look at these issues,
05:54 not by begging the president, not by begging the parliament,
05:58 not by begging the governor, but by saying
06:01 that put the right people in the place,
06:03 and you'll see the change.
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06:07 To have the police division, to have
06:09 the security of these counties, you'll see the change.
06:13 There will be less of us sitting going to the police stations
06:16 that are populated by the male policemen who then
06:19 harass the same women, and then put them in a court of procedure.
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06:27 That is the truth.
06:28 We have gender-based violence tests at the police stations.
06:33 What are they doing there?
06:34 You are being molested, and you are being harassed,
06:38 and you are being given death threats,
06:40 even in your own house.
06:41 When you reach the police station,
06:43 you will not be with the police that
06:45 is right there in front of you.
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06:52 And right there in the A&E, they are doing court procedures.
06:58 Who are they proceduring with?
06:59 [CHANTING]
07:02 Who are they proceduring with?
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07:15 And the people who manage any country are the women.
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07:21 More than any other country in Africa.
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07:27 We cannot sit and watch it.
07:28 We cannot sit and watch.
07:31 In fact, the worst part of it is that the president
07:34 is moving, thwarting the whole country,
07:36 and has been silent on the death of the women of this country.
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07:42 Who is that?
07:43 Why is the whole country quiet?
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07:46 Why is the whole country quiet?
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07:51 Why have to go on the streets for them to hear us?
07:55 We are asking who president--
07:56 I'm not calling him president.
07:58 I'm asking Mr. Luto.
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08:03 This is how our system is going to be workable.
08:06 And this position here, I will forward my text to the governor,
08:10 but ensure that I go with it in the local parliament,
08:14 and ensure this system is--
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