Hannah Wendot Cheptumo Nominee for Cabinet Secretary, Gender, Culture, The Arts and Heritage during her vetting process before the National Assembly Committee on Appointments at County Hall, Nairobi on April 14, 2025. [Boniface Okendo, Standard] The rising cases of femicide continue to negatively impact the gains made in combating gender-based violence. In recent years, Kenya has witnessed an alarming increase in the number of women killed often by close family friends, husbands, former lovers or even people very well known to them within the community. These brutal murders point to a deeper societal crisis emanating from male dominated norms, society’s failure…