[File, Standard]Organisations in support of the boy child have called on the government to implement existing laws that protect the latter. This comes at a time when Kenya is celebrating the World Day of the Boy Child for the first time since its conception in 2018. "If we continue implementing policies empowering the girl child, we risk oppressing the boy child," she said. In an undated report by the National Gender Equality Commission (NGEC), it was established that the boy child was lagging behind in the gender equality agenda because of the lack of implementation of existing laws protecting their exclusion. On the contrary, the Gender Equality Commission report had no evidence of whether the provision on the above bill was being enforced.

Source: Standard Digital May 16, 2021 08:48 UTC