AsylumLaw.org (http://www.asylumlaw.org)
“Run by an international consortium of agencies that help asylum seekers in Australia, Canada, the United States, and several countries in Europe. Over 95% of the content on this site is open to the public, including asylum seekers from any country and the lawyers or advocates who represent them.”
Awdal Development Organization (http://www.awdaldevelopment.org/Html/homepage.htm)
This is a non-profit organization which promotes the establishment and improvement of schools in the Awdal Region and the Gabiley District.
Centre for
the Strategic Initiatives of Women (Washington, D.C.) (http://www.csiw.org/)
“Violent conflicts throughout the Horn of Africa have destroyed communities and diminished hopes for positive social, economic and political change. In the Horn of Africa, the Center for the Strategic Initiatives of Women (CSIW) is working with women to create solutions.” This organization’s site offers access to publications such as: The Culture And Tradition Of Women In Somalia, by Maisoun Badawi. Note: in order to see the choices available, a user must run the cursor over each letter of the acronym, CSIW. For example, if the cursor is on the “W,” the word “publications” appears.
Committee to Protect Journalists (http://www.cpj.org/)
Searching this site under “Somalia” results in a list of recent documents from a number of web sites.
Development Gateway Country Overview on Somalia
(http://old.developmentgateway.org/countryprofile/?country_iso=so&search_GO.x=16&search_GO.y=6)
“The Development Gateway helps communities, organizations, and individuals build partnerships, share ideas, and work together to reduce poverty.” Includes many helpful links to Somali specific web pages and documents.
Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) -- Special Operations Service--Somalia
(http://www.fao.org/)
Institute of Practical Research and Training (Hargeisa) (http://www.iprt.org)
Includes links to other Somali sites.
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (http://www.icrc.org/eng)
A search of this English language version of the ICRC site provides reports on the current humanitarian initiatives of this organization in any given country.
Kenya Somali Community of North America (http://www.kenyasomalis.org/)
“The Kenya Somali Community of North America (KSCNA), originated from the Kenya Somali community of Canada in an attempt to broaden the scope and activities of the organization. This website, a compliment to the Northern Kenya People's Network Forum(NKPN) is born out of the need to expose the long-term perpetration of injustices inflicted upon the Kenya Somalis living in the Northern Frontier Districts by the Kenyan Government.”
National Association of the Italian-Somali Community (A.N.C.I.S.) (http://web.tiscali.it/somalia/ancis/)
In Italian and English. In addition to links to other sites, includes book reviews of recent Italian publications about Somalia.
Somali Mai Community
of Minnesota, Inc. (SOMCOM)
(http://www.arlaadi.com/)
“Somali Mai Community of Minnesota, Inc. ...is a non-profit, Community-based organization, founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 1999 by a group of Somali Mai speakers from southern regions of Somali. The Community was established to assist Mai speakers victims of the civil war. The founders of the organization are refugees who fled Somalia due to war and are currently residing in Twin Cities metropolitan area.”
Somalia Watch (http://www.somaliawatch.org/)
“An organization created to help increase the understanding of the Somali issues.”
Tawakal Lifeline Somali Women's Group (London) (http://www.tawakal.co.uk/)
“Tawakal Lifeline Somali Women's Group was established in 1991 by a group of Somali refugee women from Tower Hamlets. The arrivals to the area came in the early 1990's in response to the Civil War in Somalia. Their vision was to develop and deliver services that sort to improve the housing, health, social, educational and employment needs of new Somali refugee families in East London. They received support from other local people and groups in the area.”
U.S. Committee for Refugees:Country Information: Somalia (http://www.refugees.org/)
World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/en/
)
The official site of the WHO offers text in English, French or Spanish on its mission and health initiatives, programs and warnings world wide.
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