C: MASS MEDIA REPORTS

C1: INTERNATIONAL

Description: Information about mass media reports and commentaries on contemporary migration and refuge movements at international level. Sources: International organizations of media coverage Dates: 2014-2016

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1. «Στήριξη στα άφωνα και ανήμπορα παιδιά – πρόσφυγες» “Support to the speechless and helpless children”An article of a Greek university professor with title “Support to the speechless and helpless children” The UNHCR says at the end of 2014 about 60 million people worldwide were refugees. This is the highest number ever recorded by UNHCR. However, a large number of this population is children. We know little or nothing about the history of a child refugee family, for the family of background or status. Refugee children may be accompanied by their parents or another relative or friend who may or unaccompanied. Now they are in a foreign country, voiceless and helpless. Many things of everyday life are different, unknown, and must re-learn many things. Refugee children need psychological and social support, safe conditions, access to living spaces, structures and services as a basic human right, in order to develop a consistent identity and remain capable of action in overcoming developmental and orient their issues because refugees.

Νewspaper: H AΥΓΗ Greece (Greek Language)Date: 22 December 2015

https://goo.gl/zTPRJm

2. ” It never seemed to be enough. Treating the mental health of refugees”A Mental health area manager working in the International Medical Corps in Lebanon describes her experiences helping the refugees. She describes a case of Syrian refugee who committed suicide. She refers that although they were working hard, it never seemed to be enough. There was always more to be done, more people still in need. The more they got the word out that we were helping people in the area, the more people came looking for help. She had to

The Guardian – UKDate: 15 April 2016

https://goo.gl/mahQji

think that the available resources were decreasing, but the needs were increasing.

A Syrian refugee girl begs for money on a sidewalk outside a hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AP

3. «Το 50% των προσφύγων έχει ανάγκη για επείγουσα ψυχολογική στήριξη»“50% of refugees need urgent psychological support”The German Chamber of Psychotherapists warned that half of the refugees need urgent psychological help, as they have been traumatized by war. Refugees are fragile because of exile while denouncing the lack of almost of those structures that could provide such support to asylum applicants. The period between 2006-2010, before the influx of immigrants, approximately 40% of immigrants committed suicide or has attempted to put an end to his life.

Newspaper: enikos.gr -Greece (Greek Language)Date:17 September 2015

https://goo.gl/Kx2Mvh

4 IOM Launches Psychosocial Support Programme for Migrants at Detention Centres in Libya https://goo.gl/VJMoUp