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