From horror to hopelessness
Subtitle: Kenya's forgotten Somali refugee crisis
By: Human Rights Watch
Contributors: Simpson, Gerald
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9781564324658
Subjects: Political refugees; Government policy; Legal status, laws; Right of Asylum; Refugee camps
Other titles: Kenya's forgotten Somali refugee crisis; Kenya, from horror to hopelessness
Description: Recommendations -- Methodology -- Border closure, refoulement, and police abuses in border areas -- Humanitarian in Dadaab's camps -- Kenya's de facto encampment policy for refugees -- Acknowledgements.

This 58-page report documents the extortion, detention, violence, and deportation at the hands of the Kenyan police faced by a record number of Somalis entering Kenya. The new refugees are joining over a quarter of a million fellow refugees struggling to survive in camps designed for one-third that number.
Notes: "This report was researched and written by Gerry Simpson"--Acknowledgments.

"March 2009"--P. following t.p.

Includes bibliographical references.

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