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The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development

Patel et al., 2018

The Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development is a comprehensive synthesis of knowledge on global mental health, designed to catalyse worldwide action. It builds on the 2007 and 2011 The Lancet series on global mental health that helped make mental health care a greater priority worldwide. The ultimate goal of the Commission is to guide action to reduce the global burden of mental health problems. The Commission should give fresh impetus to the prioritisation of mental health, helping ensure physical and mental health are valued equally by the global health and development communities. The Commission has three unique guiding principles: – our approach to mental health covers the full spectrum of mental health from day-to-day wellness to long-term, disabling conditions. – mental health is the product of psychosocial, environmental, biological and genetic factors interacting with neurodevelopmental processes. – mental health should be respected as a fundamental right.

https://globalmentalhealthcommission.org/the-report/

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St. Dimitrie Foundation

Was established in 1996 in Romania and has two major activities: a social centre for children and a protected workshop for disabled young people to work. The organisation offers: welfare and care, education and supervision, psychological counseling for children and families, material and financial support for low income families.

http://www.fundatiasfantuldimitrie.ro/

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The Poverty Barrier: The Right to Rehabilitation for Survivors of Torture in the UK

Jo Pettitt, Fredom from Torture

The complex interrelationship between torture and poverty has been the subject of growing interest in recent years in line with the global recognition that all human rights, including civil and political and socio-economic rights, are ‘universal, indivisible and interdependent and interrelated’ and there has long been acknowledgement of its significance for the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.

https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/what-we-do/asylum-and-rights/poverty

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Psychosocial and mental health interventions in areas of mass violence

MSF, Kaz De Jong, 2011

These guidelines and the contribution to the Inter Agency Standing Committee Guidelines, Mental Health: Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings is written to share our technical experiences, to help colleagues and other humanitarian workers to avoid repeating the mistakes we have made. We do not claim that our intervention model is the only way to approach psychosocial or mental health problems in areas of conflict. We realise the limitations and opportunities of our organisation’s specific medical, humanitarian emergency origin as well as the specificity of our experiences.

https://www.msf.org/sites/msf.org/files/msf_mentalhealthguidelines.pdf

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A Handbook on Planning Projects to Prevent Child Trafficking

Terre des hommes, Dottridge Mike, 2007

Although a lot has been learnt already about practical ways in which adults and children who have been trafficked can be protected and assisted, much less attention has been given in recent years to drawing lessons about what techniques succeed in preventing trafficking from occurring. As a result, donors seem reluctant to invest money in efforts to prevent child trafficking, even though they are familiar with the old adage, “prevention is better than cure”. Giving prevention more attention means improving the quality of preventive work, as well as increasing the amount of work being done. This handbook is a contribution towards that improvement, distilling some of the lessons which have already been learnt by many different organisations.

http://www.terredeshommes.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/handbook_june8.pdf

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ICTJ gender justice program

International Center for Transitional Justice ICTJ

Short overview over the project on gender and reparations, ICTJ presents and is holding on with.

http://www.ictj.org/our-work/transitional-justice-issues/gender-justice

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The Asylum-seeking Child in Europe

Hans E Andersson, Henry Ascher, Ulla Björnberg, Marita Eastmond and Lotta Mellander, 2005

Children constitute an important part of asylum seekers whether they arrive With their families or alone. In 2003, there were more than 17 million refugees (43 per cent of refugees), asylum seekers and others who are of concern to the UNHCR. Of these millions of people, it is estimated that children under the age of five make up 11 per cent and 32 per cent are children aged six to seventeen. Many of these children have experienced war, violence, acts of cruelty and similar traumas. Others have been exposed indirectly through their parents traumatizing experiences. Such experiences are today increasingly recognized as being a similar burden to a child as if they are assaulted themselves. The adults often have very big problems and the children run the risk of having their problems concealed. Registration data and statistics are generally not produced in a way that makes the exposed situation of children visible. The childrens reasons for asylum in their own right are rarely investigated.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Ingleby2/publication/46668216_Meeting_the_needs_of_young_asylum_seekers_The_role_of_creative_activities/links/56b3ca0208ae636a540d1e36/Meeting-the-needs-of-young-asylum-seekers-The-role-of-creative-activities.pdf

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Report of the parliamentary inquiry into asylum support for children and young people

The children`s society, 2013

The inquiry into asylum support for children and young people received written submissions and heard oral evidence from over 200 individuals and organisations, including local authorities, safeguarding boards and academics. The panel considered perspectives from health, poverty, housing, well-being and asylum support experts, and heard directly from families with experience of living on asylum support. The evidence shows that the current asylum support system is in urgent need of reform if it is to have regard to the safety and wellbeing of children and meet its obligations to promote children’s best interests

https://www.basw.co.uk/resources/report-parliamentary-inquiry-asylum-support-children-and-young-people

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Study of community-based child protection mechanisms in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo

War Child UK

By mapping existing community-based protection initiatives, structures and approaches, the study intended to identify effective and sustainable community-based mechanisms and offer recommendations in order to help support the development of its community-based child protection strategy in Uganda and in the DRC.

https://www.streetchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/child-protection-mechanisms-uganda-drc.pdf

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BasicNeeds

This organisation believes that mental health is a right, not a privilege. For millions of mentally ill people around the world, this is not the case. For them, mental illness is a world of poverty, stigma and isolation. Basic Needs transforms lives by working with mentally ill people so that together, together we can build a world that mentally ill people feel proud to live in.

http://www.basicneeds.org/

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