How human rights defenders aided the fall of Maslaha in North-Eastern Amendment Bill seeks to outlaw traditional and informal settlements of sexual and gender-based violence cases. Gender Just now

Fatuma Abdi, another human rights defender in Wajir since 2006, faults the Maslaha system for encouraging mediation in grave matters such as sexual violence.

Early this year, the Ministry of Interior and National Administration announced the abolition of Maslaha, specifically calling for the mandatory prosecution of all defilement and sexual violence cases without room for out-of-court mediation.

What you need to know: Survivors of sexual violence in northern Kenya hope a proposed law will finally end informal settlements that have denied them justice.