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"Welcome to Kenya" : police abuse of Somali refugees.
Simpson, Gerald.; Rhoad, Meghan.; Odhiambo, Agnes.; Human Rights Watch (Organization)
2010
HV640.5.S8 S56 2010 (Map It)
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Author
Simpson, Gerald.
Title
"Welcome to Kenya" : police abuse of Somali refugees.
Published
New York, NY : Human Rights Watch, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Call Number
HV640.5.S8 S56 2010
Cover Title
Kenya, "welcome to Kenya"
ISBN
1564326411
9781564326416
Description
94 pages : maps ; 27 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)643083373
Summary
"Nearly two decades of Kenyan hospitality towards Somali refugees and asylum seekers is turning sour. Near Kenya's officially closed border with Somalia, abusive police intercept thousands of mostly women and children asylum seekers fleeing war-torn Somalia every month. Using the clandestine nature of their journey as an excuse to extort and abuse them, police beat and, in some cases, rape them, and deport or detain those who don't pay on false charges of unlawful presence in Kenya. In early 2010, hundreds, if not thousands, of Somalis unable to pay were unlawfully sent back to Somalia. Once in the camps, which only 3 percent of refugees were allowed to leave in 2009, they face further police violence. Police also fail to investigate sexual violence against refugees by other refugees and Kenyan nationals in the camps, leading to a climate of impunity for those responsible. The abuses are the direct result of the country's border closure and the related closure of a refugee transit center near the border which used to provide a safe place where most Somalis first sought refuge in Kenya and from where the UN previously transported them to the camps. Without this transit center, Somalis have become fair game for corrupt police. This report outlines concrete steps Kenya should take to end the abuses and to proactively prevent and respond to sexual violence in the camps. It also calls on the UN refugee agency to improve its monitoring of abuses and to increase its advocacy with the authorities to end them."--P. [4] of cover.
Note
This report was researched and written by Gerry Simpson, Meghan Rhoad and Agnes Odhiambo--Acknowledgments.
"June 2010"--P. following title page.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Police abuse of Somali refugees
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Rhoad, Meghan.
Odhiambo, Agnes.
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Human Rights Watch (Organization)
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Border and refugee transit center closures: a recipe for police abuses
Police abuses against asylum seekers near the Dadaab refugee camps
Abuse of asylum seekers by criminals in the border areas
Police violence against refugees in the Dadaab refugee camps
Police failures to respond to sexual violence in the Dadaab refugee camps
Unlawful restriction on refugees' free movement and abusive imprisonment of refugees convicted of moving without permission
UNHCR's role in monitoring violations of the rights of asylum seekers and refugees
Comprehensive recommendations
Acknowledgments.

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