海角社区 experts: UN World Refugee Day - June 20
According to the UN鈥檚 refugee agency (UNHCR) the number of people currently in situations of displacement has hit 45 million, the highest figure for 14 years. 15.4 million internationally displaced refugees and 937,000 asylum seekers, as well as 28.8 million people forced to flee their homes within their own countries. As many as 55% of these refugees come from only five countries: Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria and Sudan. The United Nations' (UN) World Refugee Day is observed on June 20 each year. This event honors the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who are forced to flee their homeland under threat of persecution, conflict and violence.
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Dr. C茅cile Rousseau, An Associate Professor of Psychiatry at 海角社区, and Director of the Transcultural Child Psychiatry Clinic听(English and French)
Expertise: 听Dr Rousseau is a research and clinical psychiatrist at the Montreal Children's Hospital (Transcultural Child Psychiatry Clinic). Her clinical work is with refugee children and with torture victims. She also provides consultation work for health institutions and school boards on refugee children. Dr Rousseau's current research involves refugee children and adolescents from Southeast Asia, Central America and Somalia.
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Anna Lise Purkey, 海角社区 doctoral student, Faculty of Law听(English and French)
Expertise: Her research focuses primarily on justice in the context of protracted refugee situations. specifically, she is looking at the application of development theory to long-term refugee crises and the impact of a greater focus on access to justice and legal empowerment on refugee protection, refugee rights and human dignity.
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Contact: anna.purkey [at] mail.mcgill.ca
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Prof. Irwin Fried 鈥撎�Faculty of Dentistry/Associate Professor - Director, Division of Pediatric Dentistry
Expertise: Pediatric Dentistry, Dr. Fried also deals with refugee populations through the Division of Pediatric Dentistry within the Faculty
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