Q&A: "A Pastoralist Woman Is Like a Working Machine"
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 08 (IPS) - "In some communities, you can't talk about violence against women," says Agnes Leina, executive director of Il'laramatak Community Concerns (ICC), a group that promotes the human rights of pastoralist communities in northern and southern Kenya, with a special emphasis on women and girls.
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