Somalia: Information on the treatment accorded widowed or divorced woman from the Habar (or Habr) Gedir clan upon her return to her clan if her husband belonged to the Majerteen clan

Publisher Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Author Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada
Publication Date 1 January 1996
Citation / Document Symbol SOM22782.E
Cite as Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Somalia: Information on the treatment accorded widowed or divorced woman from the Habar (or Habr) Gedir clan upon her return to her clan if her husband belonged to the Majerteen clan, 1 January 1996, SOM22782.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6aadf48.html [accessed 17 September 2023]
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Information on the above-mentioned subject could not be found among the sources consulted by the DIRB.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Sources Consulted

Amnesty International Report 1994, 1995. 1994, 1995.

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, United States Department of State. March 1995. Somalia: Profile of Asylum Claims and Country Conditions.

Critique 1994. July 1995.

DIRB country file. January 1993-Present.

Horn of Africa Bulletin [Uppsala, Sweden]. March 1994-December 1995.

Human Rights Watch. April 1995. Somalia Faces the Future; Human Rights In A Fragmented Society.

News from Africa Watch [New York]. March 1989-Present.

Refuge [Toronto]. January 1992-March 1995.

Somalia: A Country Study. 1993.

Swiss Review of World Affairs [Zurich]. April 1995-January 1996.

Third World Quarterly [Boston]. January 1992-December 1995.

UNHCR. October 1994. Background Paper on Somali Refugees and Asylum Seekers.

WIN News [Lexington, Mass.]. Spring 1993-Autumn 1995.

On-line searches.

        Oral sources.

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