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Refugee Camps Leave Sudanese Women Vulnerable

The United Nations has reported that more than 80 percent of refugees fleeing fighting in southern Sudan are children and women. Without their husbands, many women face harassment, exploitation and violence in refugee camps.
Pierre Holtz/IRIN

Thousands of women and children have fled fighting in southern Sudan.

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