Gender based and Sexual violence against girls and women is a human-rights problem, and a growing concern in sub-Saharan Africa.
An estimate 140 million women and girls have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and over 500 women and girls are at risk of been mutilated everyday.
Sexual violence remains a serious concern, 70% of survivors raped during the Rwanda genocide in 1994 have contracted HIV, in Zambia between January and August 2008, the Zambian Victim Support Unit in Lusaka alone received 65 cases of adult rape and 626 cases of child rape, In Kenya more than 2,800 cases of rape were reported in 2004.
A study in Uganda revealed that 49 percent of sexually active primary school girls say they had been forced to have sexual intercourse. In provincial Tanzania and urban Namibia, 43% and 33% respectively of women reporting first sex before the age of 15 years described that experience as forced.
The “Joint Initiative against Sexual Violence toward Women and Children”2 identified 40,000 incidents of rape in 2003; including 25,000 in South Kivu.3 the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) identified 15,996 new cases in 2008. More than 65 percent of the victims of sexual violence were children most of them young girls between twelve and eighteen.
Okuda aim is to empower women throughout Africa, and to provide adequate information and support so as to enable and urge women to determine their own futures and to challenge gender-based inequalities.
Okuda International will operate national projects in Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Gambia and Uganda by creating centre’s and safe haven for women.
We hope to provide accessible resources pertaining to gender based violence and women reproductive health.
Women will be able to access information, medical attention, counseling, care and support
An estimate 140 million women and girls have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and over 500 women and girls are at risk of been mutilated everyday.
Sexual violence remains a serious concern, 70% of survivors raped during the Rwanda genocide in 1994 have contracted HIV, in Zambia between January and August 2008, the Zambian Victim Support Unit in Lusaka alone received 65 cases of adult rape and 626 cases of child rape, In Kenya more than 2,800 cases of rape were reported in 2004.
A study in Uganda revealed that 49 percent of sexually active primary school girls say they had been forced to have sexual intercourse. In provincial Tanzania and urban Namibia, 43% and 33% respectively of women reporting first sex before the age of 15 years described that experience as forced.
The “Joint Initiative against Sexual Violence toward Women and Children”2 identified 40,000 incidents of rape in 2003; including 25,000 in South Kivu.3 the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) identified 15,996 new cases in 2008. More than 65 percent of the victims of sexual violence were children most of them young girls between twelve and eighteen.
Okuda aim is to empower women throughout Africa, and to provide adequate information and support so as to enable and urge women to determine their own futures and to challenge gender-based inequalities.
Okuda International will operate national projects in Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Gambia and Uganda by creating centre’s and safe haven for women.
We hope to provide accessible resources pertaining to gender based violence and women reproductive health.
Women will be able to access information, medical attention, counseling, care and support
