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Country Profile: SOMALIA

General Information

  BBC Country Profile: Somalia
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CIA Factbook Somalia
Constitution
News and Information Sources
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Banadir
IRIN News
Somaliland Times
NGOs/ Projects

Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

African Union Mission in Somalia

Center for Peace and Democracy

Christian Aid

Horn of Africa Relief and Development Organisation

International Committee of the Red Cross

Refugees International
 

Reports, Articles and Analysis

UN and Somalia sign action plan on ending killing and maiming of children (UN News Centre) (August 08, 2012)

Warring parties in Somalia put children at grave risk (Human Rights Watch) (February 21, 2012)

Mohamud Mohamed Ali, “Two years later, I am back to square one” (IRIN News) (December 6, 2011)

Tempted with a phone to carry a gun (IRIN News) (October 18, 2011)

Children in Somalia facing war crimes (Amnesty International) (July 20, 2011)

Somalia: Stop War Crimes in Mogadishu (Human Rights Watch) (February 14, 2011)

World Report 2011: Somalia (Human Rights Watch) (2011)

Welcome to Kenya: Police Abuse of Somalia Refugees (Human Rights Watch) (June 2010)

Kenya: Stop Deportation to War-Torn Somalia (Human Rights Watch) (December 7, 2010)

 Somalia: UN Human Rights Experts Condemn Recent Execution of Teenage Girls (UN News Centre) (November 11, 2010)

UN envoy deplores rising recruitment of child soldiers in Somalia (UN News Centre) (November 8, 2010)

Somalia and US should ratify UN child rights treaty - official (UN News Centre) (October 13, 2010)

Children Carry Guns for U.S. Ally, Somalia (The New York Times) (June 13, 2010)

Somali Militants Increasing Use of Child Soldiers (ABC News) (May 2, 2010)

Mogadishu street children eyeing chance to shine (AFP) (March 17, 2009)

Profile: Somalia's Islamic 'lads' (BBC News) (March 21, 2008)

 Somalia: No Place for a Child (Associated Press) (November 14, 2007)

 UNICEF urges Somalia's battling rivals to ensure children's safety as death toll rises (UN News Service) (August 3, 2007)

Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict Issues Recommendations on Somalia and Uganda, Examines Reports on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Chad (Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict) (July 20, 2007)
 
 Child soldiers found in Somali capital, UNICEF says (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) (June 8, 2007)Report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Somalia (United Nations Security Council) (May 7, 2007)

 Child soldiers caught in chaos of Somalia (Associated Press) (January 13, 2007)

 Child Soldiers Being Recruited in Somalia, Say Humanitarian Agencies (VOA News) (January 12, 2007)

UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report 2007: Somalia (UNICEF) (2007)

International Women's Day: Somali refugee women come into their own outside of home (UNHCR) (March 8, 2005)

Education in Somalia: A New Dawn - Building Education for Children and Young People (Unicef) (September 2003)

 Somali tension as mandate ends (BBC News) (August 12, 2003)

 Profile: Somalia's isolated leader (BBC News) (August 5, 2003)

 Somalia: Orphans facing street life after Saudi NGO pulls out (IRIN) (May 21, 2003)

 War on terror hits Somali orphans (BBC News) (May 20, 2003)

 Somalis 'smuggling children overseas' (BBC News) (January 17, 2003)
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