Sentences with phrase «age refugee children»

Compelling documentary focuses of elementary school age refugee children being taught in Holland

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The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.

Of the 19,324 Syrian refugees admitted to the US since 2012, 47 percent have been children thirteen years of age or under, while just 13 percent have been men aged 21 through 40.

Supporting formula feeding for families on the move is especially difficult and is partly why the «Interim Considerations for the feeding support of Infants and Young Children under 2 years of age in refugee and migrant transit settings in Europe» were developed.

An LCGB hosted workshop: Infant Feeding in Emergencies: working with refugee families in Europe 2016 In emergencies, infants and children under the age of 2 are the most vulnerable.

And see: Interim Operational Considerations for the feeding support of Infants and Young Children under two years of age in refugee and migrant transit settings in Europe from UNHCR, Save the Children, ENN and reviewers.

«On the question of refugees, may I ask her to confirm what I think she said a moment ago - that any child or orphan brought in under this scheme will, as is the case under present legislation, be deported at the age of 18?

Minister in the Lords just confirmed refugee orphans and children brought in under Cameron's scheme will be deported at age 18.

NYCLU announced a settlement with Utica City schools ensuring refugee children receive the same educational opportunities as their peers, by guaranteeing them the right to attend public school past the age of 21.

The study participants included 147 Syrian refugee children, ages 9 to 14.

Children under age 14 make up nearly half of the Syrian refugees resettled in the U.S. Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP / Getty Images hide caption

Children under age 16 comprise up to 50 % of the inhabitants of refugee and IDP (internally displaced persons) camps where they frequently arrive separated from family and loved ones.

Deema Jarrar, an education specialist in Jordan, agreed, and used an example from her experience — the massive influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan, including 180,000 school - age children — of how this would work.

Sarah Dryden - Peterson, an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, found that refugee children — many of them English - language learners — spend a «disproportionate amount of their time learning languages,» which can contribute to falling behind in age - appropriate academic content.»

17.1 % of them live in refugee camps in West Bank and 41.7 % of those are children under the age of 15.

Almost half of these refugees are school - aged children (UNHCR, 2015).

It was hard to imagine in 2001 that climate change would be creating climate refugees worldwide in less time than it takes to raise a child to legal age.

In particular, such an interpretation would entail that two different unaccompanied children of the same age and who have applied at the same for the refugee status, would be treated differently with regards to their right to family reunification depending on how quick or slow the national authorities would process their application (paras 55 - 56).

It will prioritise research into: children who have experienced trauma; young people at risk of offending behaviour; carers — particularly those caring for someone with depression and anxiety; elderly Australians especially those in residential aged care; and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, refugees and other potentially vulnerable cultural minority groups.

Loughry and Flouri (2001) for example, investigated the behavioural and emotional problems of 455 former unaccompanied refugee children and youth aged between 10 and 22, three to four years after their repatriation to Vietnam from refugee centres in Hong Kong and South East Asia.

The findings that children and adolescents accompanied by family members are less distressed than those who arrive accompanied by relatives corroborate the findings of Kinzie et al. (1986; 1989) who demonstrated that it was neither the amount nor type of trauma witnessed, nor the child's age or gender that predicted PTSD in Cambodian refugees.

Similarly, though not drawing directly from a refugee but rather displaced and war exposed population, Macksoud and Aber (1996) examined the relationship between the number and type of war traumas and psychosocial development among 224 Lebanese children aged between 10 - 16.

Target group: The Rainbow Program is designed to provide support to refugee children aged 9 - 12 years who attend English Language Schools and Centres, or mainstream schools with a significant enrolment of new arrival families, as well as supporting their families.