UNIFEM's Nairobi-based African Women in Crisis Programme has commissioned two short studies of groups of women living in the margins of society to ensure that the issues they represent are restored to the development agenda. The first study will examine the impact of a large refugee camp (65,000 inhabitants) on a local population of agro-pastoralists whose fragile economy is teetering on the edge of extinction after several years of drought. Young girls and older women from the Turkana community in Northern Kenya are drawn to the opportunities afforded by Kakuma camp, which offers access to medical and educational facilities, but also forced marriages and work in camp brothels. The second study revisits the situation of internally displaced women in Kenya's Rift Valley and Laikipia Plateau, many of whom remain displaced since the so-called "land clashes" which preceded the 1992 elections and others as a result of subsequent ethnic conflicts. For more information, contact Nyaradzai Gumbonzvanda, Regional Programme Director for East, Central and Horn of Africa.