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When Water Isn't Safe to Ask For: The Hidden Cost of Water Scarcity in Kibera
An NPR investigation published this week put words to something we at Human Needs Project witness far too often: women and girls in Kibera being harassed, assaulted, or pressured into trading their bodies for water. It's a word most people have never had to learn: sextortion. But in communities where clean water is scarce, and where women are traditionally the ones responsible for collecting it, sextortion is a daily risk hiding behind an ordinary errand. "During water shorta
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