30th octobre 2025
Sexual exploitation and abuse in Kenya are not limited to one environment; they travel seamlessly between digital and physical spaces. Survivors experience compounded harm when justice systems are fragmented, laws are outdated, and cultural norms silence victims. As technologies evolve, so do tactics of coercion and control. Survivors, especially those facing layered vulnerabilities such as poverty, disability, or displacement, need holistic protection.
Drawing from Kenya’s lived realities and regional patterns, the brief calls for urgent action across seven priority areas:
Recommendations
- Legal & Policy Reform: Update the Sexual Offences Act and Counter-Trafficking in Persons Act to explicitly include OSEA; regulate AI and algorithmic harm; embed compensation and redress mechanisms.
- Multi-Stakeholder Coordination: Scale up One-Stop Centres, harmonise survivor referrals, and mandate tech companies-government cooperation and accountability.
- Capacity Building: Equip police, judges, and prosecutors with training on digital evidence and trauma; integrate OSEA into academic institutions’ curricula.
- Survivor-Centred Justice: Institutionalise trauma-informed procedures; embed peer-led support systems and ensure holistic survivor care.
- Strengthening Accountability: Mandate audits, anti-corruption mechanisms, and fast-tracked SEA case resolution; extend accountability to tech companies.
- Regional Cooperation: Ratify and implement the AU Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls and the Malabo Convention; develop cross-border legal pathways for OSEA cases.
- Prevention & Awareness: Launch survivor-informed public education campaigns and integrate digital citizenship into school curricula; improve access to national reporting tools.
Together, we can end the continuum of exploitation and build a safer digital future.
Read the full brief and join us in demanding stronger online protections for women and girls in Kenya and worldwide.