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Canadian Refugee Hearing May 13th, 2013- Urgently need a Gambia Expert

Please see request below. If you are able to respond, please contact Ana Teresa Rico directly at arico003@gmail.com.

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Prevalence and impact of Depression among immigrants and refugees: implication for Canadian Social Workers

With Canadian family size averaging 1.9 children per household in 2011 (Statistics Canada, 2012), immigration remains an economic imperative for Canada’s continued dominance as one of the world’s economic power. The country seems to balance its book and meet the shortage of labour through various forms of immigration including skilled migration programs and admitting an increasingly large number of refugees from abroad and those that claim protection from within Canada.

Urgent Appeal: Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance (AMERA) - Egypt

AMERA is a human rights organization that provides free legal, social and mental health services to the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Egypt. For the last ten years, AMERA has tirelessly served people who have fled their home countries due to persecution, conflict, torture, trafficking, violence and terror. We work with refugees (mostly from Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea) to rebuild their lives and provide safety to their families. If you would like to know more about our work, please go to: http://www.amera-egypt.org

Requests for info: do you have experience of reintegration programming with children who have become separated from their families and communities?

The Centre for Rural Childhood, University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) Scotland is developing a toolkit to help organisations monitor and evaluate reintegration programmes for children. This project is funded by the Oak Foundation and is part of a larger project on recovery and reintegration (www.childrecovery.info). This work is being supported by an inter-agency steering group including representatives from EveryChild, Save the Children, Mkombozi and IOM.  
 

Request for information: Inter-agency research on reintegration

The Inter-agency Group on Children's Reintegration is currently carrying out desk based research on reintegration.  The group is headed by Family for Every Child and others members include representatives from BCN, UNICEF, USAID, the CPC Learning Network, World Vision, IRC, UHI Centre for Rural Childhood, Save the Children and Maestral International. 

Request for information: family reunification

For the website: www.refugeelegalaidinformation

I have just visited AMERA Egypt -http://www.refugeelegalaidinformation.org/egypt-pro-bono-directory, and was alerted to the need for ALL legal aid NGOs in the global south to know how to reunite refugee children with their families who may be in any other host country.

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