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Protect unaccompanied minors by ensure that the UK plays its part in serving the needs of refugee children at risk in our country, Europe, and the wider world.
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«The last two weeks have been about as grim and hopeless as any of us can remember,» Lamott wrote, listing events like the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster in Ukraine, Palestinian children killed by rocket fire while playing football on the beach and protests against young refugees showing up at the U.S. border.»
This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.
During Thursday's Easter Week Mass at a shelter outside of Rome, Pope Francis washed the feet of Muslim, Christian and Hindu refugees and declared them all children of the same God.
Most of the children arriving at the refugee settlements have experienced traumatic events, including witnessing murders and violence.
Some of the extraordinary #Syrian children that Archbishop Suheil and I met at #Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan this morning.
Thousands of children in Kenya are at risk of hunger and malnutrition following a refugee ration cut... More
Just after you were born Europe and her limestone cities swirled with last - breath calcium blasted into the air yet you tell of chewing plaster out of your nursery wall and how at your first refugee - child Christmas you ignored the candled sweets and gnawed the pine tree's base of calcareous brittle.
«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?
Over recent days, scores of bodies of drowned children and adults have been stored in a refrigerated container at the morgue in Mytilene, the capital of the Greek island of Lesbos, since the local graveyards became filled with the refugee dead.
For example, she told the Erie County Legislature during a Feb. 16, 2017, committee hearing that «through looking in our database we found that 95 percent of children we checked had at least one screen at their pediatrician's office and the other 5 percent are mostly refugees.»
A full turn - out of Labour MPs would have prevented the government from blocking efforts at helping child refugees, according to an early analysis of last night's Commons vote.
«On 23rd February 2016, troops of 21 Brigade in conjunction with troops of MNJTF on clearance operations at Kumshe general area, rescued 250 and persons, mainly women and children held hostages by Boko Haram terrorists and brought back 800 refugees from Cameroon.
The study of Syrian refugee children, presented by researchers on June 6 at BAU International University in Washington, DC, suggests that digital games can be a cost - efficient and scalable approach to meeting the educational and psychological needs of refugee children.
According to a 2016 survey of 38 Yezidi children in a refugee camp in Turkey, all had symptoms of at least one psychiatric illness, with sleep disturbance and depression the most common.
Finally, children look at statistics about refugees and have an additional session on how to use the eight point of a compass.
«Instead of going to a government official and saying all students deserve to be in school, what we normally say at UNICEF and what is true, we should also say that if we don't get refugee children in schools, those children (especially adolescents) will be competing for jobs with the Jordanian youth, who are suffering from unemployment, and so will negatively affect the country's economy.»
Connections to friends and family, near and far, can help refugee children see the «light at the end of the tunnel» of their own educational journeys, keeping them motivated to learn and strive for peace.
New research into those educational journeys shows that relationships, at times aided by technology, are a key difference - maker for refugee children, helping them to persist in the face of overwhelming challenges.
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.»
As a result of the conference, at a closing session held on October 16, it was presented to all participants and the media a document containing a set of principles on the protection of refugee children and adolescents in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Summary: This article reports on a project aimed at helping refugees and displaced children use social - emotional learning to deal with the trauma of being displaced persons.
In 2012, Caritas began implementing the program at private Christian schools across Jordan in order to provide free learning support services — all secular in nature — to Syrian refugee children, regardless of faith.
Using as a formalist departure point the measurement, «a home that is half of a four by six foot cubicle,» which served as a critique of the treatment of Vietnamese refugees who were given the minimal amount of space in the camps, Ngô combines architectural sculpture with traces of her siblings» experiences, which are at times poignant, humorous, and profound, but always expressing a full range of agency often denied to children and refugees alike.
In this exhibition of new work, Hương Ngô draws from the stories of her family's year - long stay in Hong Kong refugee camps through the eyes of her siblings, who were children at the time.
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).
They continue to place the pregnancies of refugee women at serious risk, cause denial of treatment for sick children and deprive refugees with cancer of coverage for chemotherapy», said Dr. Philip Berger, a founding member of Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care and Chief of Family Medicine at Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital.
But the UN estimates that about 10 % of refugees in the region, approximately 380,000 women, men and children, do need to be resettled to other countries because they are at still risk or have particular vulnerabilities that can not be adequately addressed in cramped refugee camps.
Yet the label «vulnerable group» somehow sticks throughout the book, although at least an additional characteristic seems necessary to render a member of a group vulnerable, as in the cases of disabled prisoners, poor refugees, orphan children, etc..
Other firm attorneys worked on high - profile pro bono cases, traveled to refugee camps in Southeast Asia to provide legal advice, co-chaired the National Conference of Vietnamese American Attorneys, taught martial arts to underprivileged children, taught legal issues to spanish - only speaking immigrants, organized national volleyball tournaments for at - risk youth, and assisted victims of domestic violence.
The International Journal of Refugee Law is a key source material in the field of refugee protection, discussing critical issues, such as the causes of refugee and related movements, internal displacement, the situation of women and refugee children, human rights, restrictive policies, asylum, populations at risk and the conditions in different countries.
In addition, race and their status as immigrants or refugees may make them vulnerable to discriminatory behavior by those in control of economic and social benefits including employment, education, housing, health care and legal benefits: Stephen Gaetz, Street Justice: Homeless Youth and Access to Justice (Toronto: Justice for Children and Youth, 2002) at 43 - 46.
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.
It should also be noted that the paucity of research in child and adolescent refugee / asylum seekers necessitates at times reference to knowledge from adult populations.
Her experience has included working with refugee and asylum seeker children, children at risk of abuse and neglect in the Child Protection System and more recently looking at progressive universal service provisions at ECMS.
The program manual specifies that at least two facilitators conduct the program, one of whom should have experience or a qualification in child welfare or counselling with experience in working with families from refugee backgrounds and / or refugee trauma, and one of whom should be a teacher.
Summary: This article reports on a project aimed at helping refugees and displaced children use social - emotional learning to deal with the trauma of being displaced persons.
In a recent study, April A. Schottelkorb of the Department of Education at Boise State University compared the effectiveness of CCPT to TF - CBT in a sample of 31 refugee children with PTSD.