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Female genital mutilation is present in Senegal. [8] According to 2005 survey, the FGM prevalence rate is 28% of all women aged between 15 and 49. [3] There are significant differences in regional prevalence. FGM is most widespread in the Southern Senegal (94% in Kolda Region) and in Northeastern Senegal (93% in Matam Region). [9] [3]
Refugee camp, Chad. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or UNHCR, is a United Nations agency that protects and supports refugees. [1] When the UNHCR was first established, material aspects of refugee relief (e.g., housing, food) were seen to be the responsibility of the hosting government.
The museum is named after Henriette Bathily, who was trained as a nursery nurse in France from 1947–1951, was director of Les Ballets Africains founded by Fodéba Keïta, became a director of news reports in Radio Mali and Radio Sénégal, and was the director of the cultural department of the Senegalese Centre culturel français from 1963 to her death on 4 April 1984.
Refugee camp (located in present-day eastern Congo-Kinshasa) for Rwandans following the Rwandan genocide of 1994 A camp in Guinea for refugees from Sierra Leone Mitzpe Ramon, development camp for Jewish refugees, southern Israel, 1957. A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees and people in
Some young women in Senegal are returning to the traditional notion of marriage, said Marième Wone Ly, the first woman to lead a political party in Senegal over two decades ago. “We have to be ...
Refugee women in Chad. Refugee women face gender-specific challenges in navigating daily life at every stage of their migration experience. [1] Common challenges for all refugee women, regardless of other demographic data, are access to healthcare and physical abuse and instances of discrimination, sexual violence, and human trafficking are the most common ones. [2]
Wendy McCance, director of the Norwegian Refugee Council in Bangladesh, warned that international funding for the camp would run out within 10 years and called for refugees to be given "livelihood ...
According to UNHCR statistics and the Algerian Red Crescent, the camp has a population of about 39,000 Sahrawi refugees. [2] [3] Attempts to create an accurate census have been met with resistance from the Moroccan government. [4] The refugee camp was named after the Western Saharan city of Smara. It is located about 30 miles (50 km) from ...