Talk:Umoja, Kenya
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editMoving unsourced material here. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 21:28, 21 August 2017 (UTC) Umoja was originally settled by women who reported that, after being raped by British soldiers, they were driven from their home, or their husbands tried to kill them, citing that "his wife was raped "dishonours" her husband". Umoja is working with a lawyer Martin Dai, who says that due to the fact that in the case of a guilty plea, a British citizen Kenyan compensation is paid, but emphasizes that one of the first two hundred reports of rape he did not find any false. British military expressed their willingness to cooperate on the issue of rape of the women Samburu tribe, but was requested to investigate their representatives.
Danger
Arid region of Samburu and flooding rivers Evas-Ngiri periodically threaten the existence of the village.
In conventional Kenyan patriarchal settlements, women are treated as property. The women of Umoja have repeatedly been threatened with violence and periodically attack. Men tried to establish a rival village a kilometer from Umoja. Residents of the nearby town of Archers Post in 2005, tried to stop a car from going into the reserve. There are no divorce laws in Samburu, so the husbands of the other village periodically try to have authorities return their wives to them. Men from the neighboring village have threatened Rebecca Lolosoli against attending her invitation to the New York Conference of the United Nations on gender equality.
Umoja operates a short set of rules. Women have to wear traditional clothes and beads. Smoking and genital mutilation are discouraged. Women may hire men for grazing, fencing village briars, and other forms of manual labor. Umoja women also help educate women of nearby villages about women's rights, gender equality and violence prevention.