Tag: refugees
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Renowned Journalist and Refugee Rights Advocate Arwa Damon on the Importance of Refugee Mental Health
By: Ayushka Anjiv The Azadi Project’s Priyali Sur interviewed Arwa Damon, CNN’s Senior International Correspondent and humanitarian to discuss the importance of mental health support to displaced populations and in particular refugee women and children. Arwa is also the founder of International Network of Aid, Relief and Assistance (INARA) which focuses on providing medical assistance…
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MORIA’S UNACCOMPANIED MINORS WEILD THE POWER OF A PENCIL
By Alison Waldman November 2020 “I think I’ll need to change my name if I ever get to the US. It may frighten people,” was the first thing fourteen-year-old Jihad said to me. As an unaccompanied minor, his name was his only remaining connection to his parents and former life in Syria, both of which…
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SURVIVING GENOCIDE – Saputara story
Saputara, is a 19 year old woman currently living in the Kalindi Kunj camp in New Delhi, India. I spoke with her on the telephone via her husband Halal, a 23 year old Rohingya man whom she met at the camp. They have two children together. The only word we could directly exchange,sans translation,was Namaste,…
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SURVIVING GENOCIDE – Stories of Rohingya and Holocaust survivors
By Nicole Altomare and Ayushka Anjiv October 12, 2020 Nazi Germany and modern-day Myanmar may seem worlds apart, but the notion of ethnic and racial superiority, which underscores genocidal violence, is the same. Whether a survivor speaks Yiddish or Rohingya, they suffered by the orders of governments that could only charge them with the crime…