Episode 18-Caroline Muriu

This podcast episode is a civic education engagement focusing on the issue of femicide. The LawDown Africa is the official legal partner working on a mobilization campaign supported by Usikimye, an NGO that focuses on GBV sensitization and GBV survivor care, and Ogilvy Africa.To bring the legal insights and shed light on the practicability of criminalizing femicide, we spoke to Caroline Muriu, a Prosecution Counsel who has prosecuted GBV, sexual assault, defilement, manslaughter, and murder cases at the local and High Court levels. Gain insights into the judicial process for handling GBV and femicide cases, how the crimes above escalate into femicide, and why femicide should be criminalized and what that would look like.