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• Malindi hub for girl sex trade, seminar told. Daily Nation, 31 March 2008. Underage girls are being trafficked in Malindi for sex, a seminar heard Sunday. Most of the girls are from upcountry villages in Kenya. Somali women and girls are also targeted.
  
• Female Genital Mutilation Still Common in Somaliland. Voice of America,3 March 2008. As many as 97 percent of girls and women in Somaliland are believed to have undergone the procedure.
  
• UN calls on authorities to end female genital mutilation. SomaliNet, 6 February 2008. As the world marks the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), we call upon all Somalis to challenge the deeply rooted socio-cultural practice that discriminate and create the environment for the continuation of human rights violations against women, office of the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia said on Wednesday in a press release.
• Somali refugee wins US State Department award for courage. Reuters AlertNet, 31 January 2008. A young Somali refugee has been honoured with a prestigious United States government award for her courageous work in fighting for the rights of women and girls in a Kenyan refugee camp.
  
• UN alarmed by widespread rape in Mogadishu. The Mail and Guardian, 07 December 2007. The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) representative for Somalia on Friday voiced his concern at the increasing number of rape cases in the country's war-torn capital, Mogadishu.
  

• Somalia - Routinely Targeted: Attacks on Civilians in Somalia, Amnesty International, 2008

• Acculturation, Partner Violence, and Psychological Distress in Refugee Women From Somalia. Nilsson JE, Brown C, Russell EB, Khamphakdy-Brown S. J Interpers Violence 2008