Victor Nyamori: Refugees and Work

victor nyamori: It must be backed up by concrete action, he said, according to CTV. East African countries already are signatories of U.N. treaties that say refugees should be allowed to work but that has not been put into practice, he said. It is a step forward for nations like Kenya, which hosts the world's largest refugee camp and where refugees are not allowed to work, but it's not enough, said an Amnesty International expert on refugees, Victor Nyamori. Only Uganda seems to have progressive legislation to let refugees work and settle, he said. Droughts and instability already have displaced more than 2 million Somalis in recent decades, with about 900,000 sheltering in regional countries. The Intergovernmental Authority on Development summit on Somali refugees comes as Somalia again faces the threat of famine, with about half its estimated 12 million population threatened. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.