The pain and suffering for women and Girls in Dadaab Refugee camps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Michelle Bachelet,
I't a great pleasure for me to have this auspecious moment to foward all my feelings which ultimatly geared to my decisive campaign and advocacy for raising my voice to the world for violence against women in Dadaab camps.
Gender base violence including rape,domestic violence,murder and sexual abuse is profound health problem for women across the globe.Although significant cause of female morbility and mortabiliy,recent world bank estamates of the global burden of disease indicates that in the estalished market economies,gender victimazation is responsible for one out of every five health days of life lost to women of reproductive age.
Violence against women has only begun to recognised as an issue for public health.the existing data on the dimension of violence against women world wide and reviews available literature on the health consequences of abuse.It argued that health sectors has an important role to play in combating violence against women through increased research, screening ,refferals of victims and behavarial interventions.
GBV is prevalent among refugee communities owing to post conflict psychosocial conditions and fragile economic and governance structures. The forms of GBV witnessed in the Dadaab refugee camps,Kenya include rape, defilement, domestic violence, assault, early and forced marriage, sodomy, indecent assault, sexual harassment and exploitation, female genital mutilation, crimes of honour, force wife inheritance ,among others. Over the years statistics have shown that women and girls are majority of the victims who suffer GBV. Conversely, men have been the leading perpetrators of GBV in the camps due to unequal power relations between the genders, cultural biases against women and girls, and distortions of religious edicts to validate the victim hood of girls and womens.
Sexual abuse and rape survivor's exhibit s a variety of trauma -induced symtoms including sleeping and eating disturbance,depression ,feeling of humaliation ,anger,self blame ,fear of sex and inability and to concentrate.
our major challenge is Traditional institution justice: These are called “maslaha” which arbitrate and solve some of the SGBV cases reported at the camps. In most cases, serious cases of SGBV such as rape are reported to them and resolved. This is what should not happen because the perpetrators, under Kenyan law, should be arrested and charged in court. The perpetrators usually go to the traditional courts because they find refuge in them where they pay small fines and in return receive protection.
Fardosa Muse,
Nairobi -Kenya

As the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women officially begins its work this month, World Pulse is asking women worldwide: What is YOUR vision and recommendation for UN Women? We invite you to raise your voice by writing a letter to UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet outlining your recommendation for how this new UN agency can truly affect change on the ground to promote gender equality and uphold the rights and needs of women both on a local and global scale.
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