4.2 Human Rights (Non- Discriminatio n)

• The meaning of gender based violence
• Forms of gender based violence in Kenya today
• Causes of gender based violence
• Effects of gender based violence on individuals and families
• Helping survivors of gender based violence
• Values that stop gender based violence, and the biblical basis

• outline types of gender based violence in Kenya today
• discuss causes of gender based violence and its effects on individuals and families
• apply the value of love in his or her interactions with others
• recognise that all human beings are created in the image and likeness of God

“Why has gender based violence increased in Kenya today?”

“How can you help peers who have faced gender based violence?”

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1. Gender based violence: what it is, its forms, and why it happens
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   The meaning of gender based violence, the six forms it takes in Kenya today, and an honest account of its causes.
2. Effects, helping survivors, and the answer of love
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   What gender based violence does to individuals and families, how to help a survivor, and the biblical answer in Genesis 1, Galatians 3 and 1 Corinthians 13.
3. What gender based violence is
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   A clear definition, the four features that identify it, and three misunderstandings that get in the way.
4. Forms of gender based violence in Kenya
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Five forms, what each looks like in practice, and the Kenyan laws that make them offences.
5. Causes of gender based violence
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Causes at four levels, why explaining is not excusing, and why reported cases can rise while violence falls.
6. Effects on individuals, families and community
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   How the harm spreads outward from the person attacked, and why recovery is possible but needs support.
7. Helping somebody who has been harmed
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   What to do and what not to do, the urgent medical steps, and where to go for help in Kenya.
8. The image of God, and the values that stop violence
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Genesis 1:27 and what follows from it, the Christian teaching on how people are to be treated, and what a young person can actually do.