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Lesbians in Kenyan refugee camps need our help
SALLY JACKSON of feminist campaign group FiLiA tells the Star about emerging reports of violence, sexual assault and rape of lesbian women at the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya — and how she hopes readers will help take action to defend them
Injured women at the Kakuma camp in Kenya
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BRITISH feminists are calling on the UN’s High Commission for Refugees to take action on alleged violence against lesbian women at one of its camps in Kenya.
British-based FiLiA, a women’s rights charity, says it has received harrowing reports of poor treatment, lack of food, sexual assault and rape from a number of lesbians in the Kakuma camp in the Turkana region of north-west Kenya.
The women are not the only ones who say they have been subjected to harassment, abuse and violence.
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