Our vision is to be a catalyst for positive change in the lives of Somali women through enhancing their capacity to undertake research and providing them a forum to tell their stories, to articulate their specific needs, and to exert their agency by calling for solutions that will effectively address the marginalization they experience in Somalia.
Lynch, M. (2008). Futures Denied: Statelessness among Infants, Children, and Youth. Refugee International.
Introduction
All people, adults and children alike, have the right to a nationality.1 Moreover, nationality is an essential component of contemporary life.2 But statelessness, or the lack of effective nationality, impacts the daily lives of some 11-12 million people around the world.3 Perhaps those who suffer most are stateless infants, children, and youth.
The RMMS Mixed Migration Summary is now available : a summary of mixed migration statistics, issues and analysis from the Horn of Africa and Yemen for the months of December 2011 and January 2012. As always trends and conditions are changing and tens of thousands of people have been on the move against a turbulent regional backdrop of civil war, military invasions, drought, famine, restricted humanitarian access, increased anti-foreigner sentiments and the continual desire for people to improve their lives.
Adow, M. (2008). Pastoralists in Kenya. Forced Migration Review 31: 34.
The pastoralist community of northern Kenya has been ravaged by both droughts and floods. http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/FMR31/34.pdf