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05/03/2023

Placing Post Migration Mental Health at the Center of the Refugee Crisis in the UK

With the eyes of the world on Ukraine at this time of crisis, the managing of masses of refugees fleeing across Europe is one of the many great challenges that are arising from the conflict.

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05/03/2023

Temporary Marriages: Freedom or Exploitation? The Risk of Sexual Coercion of Syrian Refugee Girls in the Jordanian Context

For children all around the world, childhood should be an opportunity to learn and grow, with the freedom of having one’s whole life ahead of them. This, however, is not the case for the childhood of most Syrian refugee girls.
05/03/2023

Birth of Humanity: Poverty preventing Syrian refugees’ access to Maternity Care 

Syrian women flee their homes seeking safety in unfamiliar countries. However, for many, their journey is often not one of solitude as they carry a precious companion, - their unborn child.
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05/03/2023

Adolescent Pregnancy in Rwanda’s Refugee Camps: A Case of Disempowerment

For many people around the world, pregnancy is a challenging experience. For encamped refugee girls in Rwanda, pregnancy is not only a challenge, but an extreme hardship made difficult by constant stigma, exclusion and limited access to health and economic resources.

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05/03/2023

Liberal Host Countries: the Illusion of Pinkwashed Safe Havens for LGBTQ+ Forced Migrants

Advocating for LGBT+ people’s mental health is not time-bound to LGBT+ History Month. We must continue advocating for the mental health of those made invisible by sociopolitical and legal processes of exclusion.

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03/03/2023

Trapped by Land, Air, and Sea: Children’s Mental Health in Gaza

Living in what has been described as “the world’s largest open-air prison” (Høvring, 2018) cannot be doing any favours for anyone’s health and wellbeing.

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09/10/2022

Overview

Get a firsthand look at humanitarian emergency action in Jordan and Switzerland, two countries critical to the response to the current refugee crisis.