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"Yazidi survivors groups have embraced a decision by the community’s elders to allow children who are the result of rape by members of Islamic State to return with their Yazidi mothers to their homelands in Iraq," says this article from the Guardian. Before this decision was made, women who had children as the result of rape by members of the terrorist group and who did not want to be separated from their children were exiled by the community, often forced into detention camps in Syria and not permitted to return to their homes in Iraq. Many women who chose to return to their…
Turkey has opened a vast centre, termed "Orphans City," dedicated to housing and educating orphans from war-torn Syria.
Alaa al-Din Obeid, an orphanage located in Azaz, near Aleppo and the Turkish border, serves seven hundred Syrian boys and girls. Reported as the only children's on the northern countryside of Aleppo, the facility is becoming overcrowded, with 300 boys live permanently in the orphanage hopes to build a special residental ward for girls. The orphanage director reports a need for additional services and professionals to care for the growing number of children traumatized by the war in Syria.
This article from Reliefweb states that 20,000 people were recently evacuated from Aleppo. The majority of which were children, women and families.
According to this press release from Save the Children, thousands of families are fleeing to dirty overcrowded refugee camps in Syria.
BBC investigators found seven Syrians working in one British retailer's main factories. The refugees often earned little more than a pound an hour - well below the Turkish minimum wage.
In this article from NEWSok, Zaidoon Khalaf shares his experiences while attempting to reunify with his family Germany. Originally from Iraq, Khalaf, a Yazidi was forced to flee northern Iraq. Of his last days in Iraq, he says, "I stil hear the children screaming for water when ISIS burned the people to death." Zaidoon is currently in Greece in "protective custody."
This story from the Guardian describes the shock and loss children experience in Aleppo.
This article from Reuters discusses the complicated issue of birth registration for Syrian refugee children and shines light on the growing number of “stateless” children as the Syrian refugee crisis escalates. "If you look at the number of births that have happened ... I think we can be talking about hundreds of thousands who are potentially not registered in the region as a whole," according to Daryl Grisgraber, senior advocate for the Middle East at Refugees International. Children who are stateless or unregistered are at risk of being denied basic human rights such as education and health…
This video from the BBC tells the story of a 16 year-old unaccompanied minor from Syria, named Omar. The video features Omar’s illustrations of his journey from Syria to Calais.