Migration Health Division Information Sheet Series
Migration Health Assistance for Crisis-Affected Populations
HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, Cholera, Re/Emerging Diseases and Mobility
Regional situation analysis, practices, experiences, lessons learned and ways forward.
Faced with the largest population outflow in Latin America of recent years, 95 organizations covering 16 countries have been working together to establish a comprehensive response to the urgent needs of millions of refugees and migrants from Venezuela, and host communities.
Progress report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee (A/HRC/33/53) (Advance edited version)
Special Report
This report of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) was coordinated by Teymur Noori, with technical support from Andrew J. Amato-Gauci, Anastasia Pharris, Jan C. Semenza, Denis Coulombier and Piotr Kramarz.
One of every five Venezuelans who have left their country are now living in Peru. Of these over 616,279 have applied for refugee status, making it the primary host country for Venezuelan asylum-seekers in the world.
Over 495,000 have applied for the Temporary Stay Permit (Permiso Especial de Perman...encia -PTP) that allows them to access work and some basic services.
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Slavery on fishing vessels, degradation of ecosystems, overfishing, debt bondage, human trafficking and child labour in peeling sheds – the scandals surrounding the Thai fishery and shrimp industries have garnered international censure. Farmed and processed at the cost of extreme exploitation of b...oth people and the planet, Thai shrimp ends up on plates around the world. The former delicacy can now be bought cheaply everywhere. But how high is the price really? And who has to pay it?
This report by seeks to remind governments in the countries of production that it is their duty to enforce human rights and living wages, rather than to compete for the favour of large companies to the detriment of people and the environment. It also appeals to consumers and their governments – and to importers – to send a clear message to suppliers in Thailand and elsewhere: If you want to survive on the global market, you need to respect human rights and child rights, and uphold social and environmental standards.
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(External Homepage) People looking for missing migrants in Europe
A number of National Red Cross Societies in Europe are publishing photos of people looking for their missing relatives in the hope of reconnecting families.
Informationen für Migranten. Wie funktionieren deutsche Apotheken und wie bekommen Patienten Medikamente? Was ist der Unterschied zwischen verschreibungspflichtigen und apothekenpflichtigen Arzneimitteln? Was kosten Medikamente? Zu diesen und weiteren grundlegenden Fragen hat die ABDA – Bundesver...einigung Deutscher Apothekerverbände fremdsprachliche Flyer veröffentlicht. Die Flyer sind verfügbar in 12 Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch, Arabisch, Farsi, Paschto, Urdu, Kurdisch, Albanisch, Serbisch, Französisch, Russisch und Türkisch.
https://willkommensteamelmshorn.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/flyer-in-12-sprachen-wie-funktionieren-apotheken-in-deutschland/
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Dieser Leitfaden enthält Informationen und praktische Tipps für die Beratung von Migrantinnen und Migranten. Er gibt Anregungen, wie die Fachstellen den Zugang zu ihren Angeboten erleichtern können und weist auf mehrsprachiges Informationsmaterial und Bezugsqüllen hin.
Die für die Pädiatrie relevanten Verbände wie die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, die Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Sozialpädiatrie und Jugendmedizin und der BVKJ bieten jedes Jahr auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen zahlreiche Fort- und Weiterbildungsveranstaltungen an, die versch...iedene fachliche Schwerpunkte thematisieren. Die Broschüre fasst relevante Themenschwerpunkte wie zum Beispiel Jugendsexualität, mehrsprachige Erziehung, psychosomatische/psychiatrische
Krankheitsbilder bei Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund, transkulturelle Pädiatrie, Sucht und Gewalt bei Migranten u.v.m. zusammen.
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This publications outlines the specific reproductive health needs of this cadre of adolescents and the programmatic responses that can be used to reach them.
Early Childhood Matters is a journal about early childhood.
It looks at specific issues regarding the development
of young children, in particular from a psychosocial
perspective.
It is published twice per year by the Bernard
van Leer Foundation. The views expressed in Early Childhood
Matters ...are those of the authors and do not necessarily
reflect those of the Bernard van Leer Foundation. Work
featured is not necessarily funded by the Bernard van Leer
Foundation.
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This publication is a compendium of 49 country examples highlighting efforts in improving refugees’ and migrants’ health following the adoption of the WHO Global Action Plan on Promoting the health of refugees and migrants at the seventy-second World Health Assembly, in May 2019.
This is the fifth report of the Global Evidence Review on Health and Migration (GEHM) series. The publication focuses on the mental health needs of refugees and migrants by providing an overview of the available evidence on patterns of risk and protective factors and of facilitators and barriers to ...care at all levels (individual, family, community and national government). It identifies five high-level themes, each of which has implications for research and policy and is relevant across refugee and migrant groups, contexts and stages of the migration process: self-identity and community support; basic needs and security; cultural concepts of mental health as well as stigma; exposure to adversity and potentially traumatic events; navigating mental health and other systems and services.
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