ICJ-Kenya: It has been eight years (8) since the adoption of a global call for Gender Equality and Empowerment- Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030. The United Nations appreciates the importance of addressing systemic oppressions and inequalities faced by women and girls, particularly those exacerbated by poverty.

One of the significant aspects of this cause is the need to decriminalise petty offences and address the systemic oppressions within the community and criminal justice system that dispropotionately affect women and girls.

As per this year’s theme for UN-Women, Commission on the Status of Women, this paper intends to explore the challenges women and girls face in the Kenyan criminal justice system due to the criminalisation of petty offences and other systemic oppressions within the community.