The success of national vaccination campaigns depends on how they are, but there are serious concerns that some members of vulnerable communities may be excluded even if they are mentioned on paper.
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PLURAL+ is a youth video festival that encourages and empowers global youth to explore the issues of migration, diversity, social inclusion, and xenophobia through the production of short films. Meet some of the young filmmakers who have won awards for their outstanding videos calling for social change.
Despite the growing recognition of the benefits of palliative care in humanitarian settings, its provision has largely been overlooked by the humanitarian sector. began strengthening palliative care services in the Rohingya refugee camps in early 2020, prior to the the full-blown breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to integrate these essential services. Palliative care is a specialized medical field focused on providing relief for people living with a chronic or terminal illness. The goal is to improve the quality of life for both patients and caregivers.
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Nsikelelo and Samkelisiwe are siblings with albinism. They recently joined their mother, Enough Sihlongonyane, in South Africa, where she migrated from Eswatini. In South Africa, people with albinism are among the country鈥檚 most marginalized and vulnerable citizens, yet very little attention is paid to protect them from human rights abuses. Until recently, albinism has not been seen as a disability, but calls from the albinism community are growing for it to be classified as such. There have been reports in South Africa, and a number of other African countries, of people with albinism being murdered for their body parts, to be used in witchcraft rituals.
Maureen Achieng, Chief of Mission of to Ethiopia and Representative to the African Union and to UNECA, says a new narrative on migration in Africa is emerging. It challenges and debunks commonly held perceptions and myths about African migration and African migrants, revealing that most people are not crossing seas and oceans to migrate, but rather crossing land borders in their quest for greener pastures. In fact, of people who do cross seas and oceans from African countries to reach other destinations do so through regular channels. According to the first-ever 鈥,鈥 these people are mostly business travelers and students, taking planes and passing through airports and official land borders.
Each year, thousands of residents get displaced due to flash floods in Bor, South Sudan. Last year a long embankment constructed to contain the flow of water, collapsed after continued flooding. and partners conducted a detailed technical assessment and identified sections of the dike that were susceptible to further damage. Based on its findings, IOM began repair and maintenance work in the dike by procuring sandbags, wooden posts and bamboo poles to strengthen exposed sections. Youth from the community voluntarily participated in repair works for over a month.
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Migrants often face lack of clear, accessible information that allows them to make informed decisions, so word-of-mouth myths and prejudices about access to status regularization prevail. 鈥淢any migrants are facing the consequences of decisions they made, which were informed by misinformation spreading on social media,鈥 said Leonard Doyle, head of IOM Communications. Two new IOM campaigns are attempting to counter that. 鈥溾 was presented online in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador on 22 October, two days after the virtual launch of 鈥," a campaign in Costa Rica.
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