On 1st October 2014, USWO signed a new project on "Support to the promotion of gender equality and women's empowerment in Somalia/land funded by the European Union (EU) to Minority Rights Group International (MRG) and managed by and in partnership with IIDA Women's Development Organization (IIDA).
Looking for a better life and many other reasons irregular migrants from Ethiopia and South Central Somalia cross the Gulf of Aden into Yemen while a large number of migrants from Somaliland go through Ethiopia and Sudan to reach Libya and Mediterranean Sea to Italy through. As both routes are dangerous and risk-full, robbery, rape, detention, torture and human rights abuses. On the journey, some of the migrants die in the sea, others disappear while few saved migrants face hazardous working conditions, refused promised wages and physical abuse.