"Please help me," said a desperate-looking woman coming towards me. "I have been raped and beaten several times in this camp but no one seems to hear me out," added the woman, Maria Mutetsi.
Mutetsi is a Rwandan widow who fled her country soon after the 1994 genocide that killed nearly one million Tutsi and moderate Hutus. She now lives in Kakuma refugee camp - a concentration of shacks on the sparsely populated plains of Africa's Great Rift Valley in northern Kenya.
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