Femme International

An NGO dedicated to promoting women's health through education, with a focus on menstrual health. Let's work together to reduce the stigma!

[Femme International @FemmeInt]

Since our launch in 2013, Femme International has collaborated with women and men who believe in our mission and want to co-create a world where menstruation is not a barrier.
#femmeinternational

[QWomen HRDs @QwomenHRDs]

#BehindTheBadge  #TheIssueIsViolence

[Pipsy @INVOTIQFdn]

Colonial-era laws continue to be used as tools for harassment, arrest, and abuse against LGBTIQ+ Kenyans.

It is time to repeal discriminatory laws and end state-enabled violence.

#Repeal162 BehindTheBadge #TheIssueIsViolence

[Femme International @FemmeInt]

On World MH Day, we stand for every person who deserves safe menstrual products, clean facilities, and a world free from period stigma.

Let's keep talking, keep advocating, and keep breaking the silence. 🩸

#MenstrualHygieneDay #PeriodPositive #BreakTheTaboo #MenstrualHealth

[Kariobangi Social Justice Centre @KariobangiSJC]

Menstruation is natural, but period poverty continues to deny many girls their dignity, education & health. In Kariobangi, many girls still miss school because they cannot afford sanitary products.
#ActOnMenstrualHygiene
#LeaveNoOneBehind
#PeriodFriendlyWorld
#KariobangiSJC

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

The report asks us to sit with an uncomfortable truth: Kenya has strong constitutional promises, but many LGBTIQ+ persons still experience fear at the hands of law enforcement.

That gap is where advocacy must happen.

Read:
https://t.co/qpWtYkoGwI

#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

Sorry to say but a country cannot call itself rights based while allowing people to be arrested, threatened, or abused because of real or perceived identity.

At some point, we must choose: are we protecting dignity, or are we protecting discrimination?

#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

Behind every statistic in this report is someone who learned to fear institutions that were supposed to protect them.

That is not a small governance issue. That is a human rights crisis.

Read the report:
https://t.co/qpWtYkoGwI

#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

We cannot say “justice for all” and then allow some people to be policed through shame, suspicion, and violence.

Justice that depends on identity is not justice. Ni privilege.

#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

If the Constitution protects “every person,” then we cannot keep creating silent exceptions.

Every time we say “yes, but not them,” we weaken the meaning of rights for all of us.

Leo ni wao. Kesho ni nani?

#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

Sometimes we reduce LGBTIQ+ rights to debate, opinion, or morality.

But behind those debates are real people trying to live, work, seek healthcare, report violence, and move through the world without fear.

Hiyo part tusisahau.

#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

Accountability is not “attacking the police.”

Accountability is saying: if you wear the badge, you must also carry the responsibility that comes with it.

Power without accountability is dangerous. Kwa kila mtu.

#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

A police station should not be a place where someone’s dignity disappears.

Whether someone is queer, trans, intersex, poor, young, loud, quiet, visible, or invisible, the law must still treat them as human.

Hapo ndipo human rights huanza.

#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

Before we argue from fear, religion, politics, or opinion, let’s first read the evidence.

The report documents what happens when stigma enters law enforcement spaces.

Read it here:
https://t.co/qpWtYkoGwI

#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

Colonial era laws are still being used to justify present day harm.

And somehow, people call that “African values.”

Lakini ukweli ni this: laws that enable harassment, fear, and abuse do not reflect dignity. They reflect control.

#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

This conversation is bigger than whether people “agree” with LGBTIQ+ persons.

The real question is this: do we believe human rights are for everyone, or only for people society finds acceptable?

Because that answer says a lot about us.

#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

If someone cannot report violence because they fear the police will humiliate them, arrest them, or blame them, then justice has already failed before the case even begins.

That is the part we don’t talk about enough.

#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

Let’s be honest. The problem is not just “a few bad officers.”

When laws, stigma, silence, and fear work together, abuse becomes easy to hide and even easier to repeat.

That is how systems protect harm.

#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

The Constitution does not say dignity for some. Equality for some. Protection for some. It says every person. That must include LGBTIQ+ Kenyans in practice, not just on paper.
#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

This is bigger than one community. When the rights of one group can be suspended because society disapproves of them, then everyone’s rights become conditional.
#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws

[martha kombe◢◤ @KombeMartha]

I always say; a badge should never be used to humiliate, threaten, extort, or erase someone’s humanity.

Law enforcement must be rooted in dignity, not prejudice.
#BehindTheBadge #LGBTIQHumanRights #HumanRightsForAll #EndPoliceBrutality #RepealDiscriminatoryLaws