Kenya: UNHCR strengthens mechanisms to curb violence in refugee camps

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) launched a project intended to curb the incidence of sexual and gender-based violence in refugee camps in Kenya. n"Serious violations of the safety, security and dignity of refugees have occurred in many refugee programmes in the past," George Okoth-Obbo, UNHCR's country representative in Kenya said during the launch of the 'Preventing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the Kenya Refugee Programme' project. Obbo said: "It is an irony that refugees have fled their homes because they could not find safety, yet they arrive in asylum to find equally acute forms of danger, fear and anxiety."