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How Kenyan women are fighting for themselves in court

Winner of the Council of Europe’s 2018 Democracy Innovation Award talks about training women to represent themselves in Kenyan courts.

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“Access to justice in Kenya is still a very challenging thing for women and their children”, said Teresa Omondi Adeitan, from the Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) in Kenya, who knows more about this topic than most.

This challenge, she said on the sidelines of the Council of Europe’s World Forum for Democracy (WFD), remains “because the government has yet to put in resources to ensure that everybody can be able to access justice in Kenya”.