Hitting, battery and beatings are the most prevalent forms of violence and mostly occur in Mombasa, at 97.8 per cent.
Victims were also subjected to psychological humiliation, forced marriages, marital rape, forceful initiations and discrimination at work. They were also deprived of sexual desires, money and land, as well as freedom of movement.
Other top causes include stress, poverty, male dominance and cultural rites, having no fear for consequences and peer pressure in that order.
A new report singles out Mombasa, Machakos, Samburu, Kisii, Kilifi Busia and Meru counties as the worst hit by cases of gender violence, including rape, battery and beatings.
The victims are mostly women, and in some cases, the brutalities meted on them resulted in deaths in Meru, Nakuru, Nyeri, Machakos, Kiambu, Busia, Samburu and Nairobi counties.
