Women living with HIV in Kenya are filing human rights lawsuit on International Human Rights Day to challenge the practice of forced and/or coerced sterilization of women living with HIV in Kenya.
Nairobi, Kenya 10th December, 2014 – At Milimani Law Courts
The International Community of Women Living with HIV – Kenya (ICW-K) in collaboration with ICW Eastern Africa and ICW Global stand in solidarity with the Kenyan women living with HIV who have filed a lawsuit on this International Human Rights Day seeking justice after being forcibly and/or coercively sterilized because of their HIV status. These women represent many other women living with HIV in Kenya and around the world who have and are continuously experiencing violation of their sexual, reproductive and health rights, and whose ability to have children is taken away against their will hence negative impact on their gender identity as women.
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