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For the first time in years, Arya Rams falls asleep and wakes up each day without a dense knot of fear in her chest. She lives in a room in a safe house deep in Kenya's Rift Valley, supported by the Dutch non-governmental organization Trans Rescue. Being transgender in Kenya can be...

Amnesty International and other groups say there's been increasing cases of sexual and gender-based violence, as well as domestic abuse, across Kenya

By Ayenat Mersie NAIROBI - For the first time in years, Arya Rams falls asleep and wakes up each day without a dense knot of fear in her chest. She li...

By Ayenat MersieNAIROBI - For the first time in years, Arya Rams falls asleep and wakes up each day without a dense knot of fear in her chest.

A few months later, Arya said she was chased by people wielding machetes. Arya, 27, said the protections of the safe house have been all the more important over the past week as a backlash against lesbian, gay and transgender Kenyans has flared following the death of LGBTQ rights activist Edwin Chiloba.