DHS in the News

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Arthur Okwemba
Commentary
GENDER LINKS OPINION AND COMMENTARY SERVICE

...Several months ago I wrote a piece on marital rape in Kenya. Two editors working with a respected Kenyan newspaper refused to publish it.

"There is nothing like marital rape, what are you trying to tell people," one editor told me. His reaction surprised me because my story was not based on hearsay or uncorroborated assertions, but rather on the findings of the respected 2008-2009 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey...

http://www.genderlinks.org.za/article/medias-role-in-marital-rape-2011-01-20

Abstract:

Arthur Okwemba
Commentary
GENDER LINKS OPINION AND COMMENTARY SERVICE

...Several months ago I wrote a piece on marital rape in Kenya. Two editors working with a respected Kenyan newspaper refused to publish it.

"There is nothing like marital rape, what are you trying to tell people," one editor told me. His reaction surprised me because my story was not based on hearsay or uncorroborated assertions, but rather on the findings of the respected 2008-2009 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey...

URL to article: http://www.genderlinks.org.za/article/medias-role-in-marital-rape-2011-01-20