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رسائل أساسية الرسائل الرئيسية للمجتمعات المهاجرة (الاتحاد الدولي للصليب الأحمر والهلال الأحمر): قام الاتحاد بتصدير رسائل رئيسية حول الحد من خطر الإصابة بالفيروس التاجي. وتشمل هذه الرسائل طرق الحد من خطر الإصابة بالعدوى ، بالإضافة إلى رسائل محددة حول “متى ترتدي قناعًا” و “كيفية الحفاظ على صحتك أثناء السفر” وكيفية ممارسة السلامة الغذائية”.
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The IFRC has produced key messages on reducing the risk of coronavirus infection. These include messages on reducing the risk of infection, as well as specific messages on “when to wear a mask”, “how to stay healthy while travelling” and “how to practice food safety”. It can be accessed here: https://shared.ifrc.org/#/downloadcollection/%7Beccffbc5-5844-42e8-96ba-82eeec67f8cd%7D
The IFRC has published this brief guidance on including migrants and displaced people in preparedness and response activities in the MENA region. It can be accessed here: https://www.communityengagementhub.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/IFRC-MENA-Migration-and-Displacement-Guide-COVID-19.pdf
This report was commissioned to examine the nature and quality of media stories produced by journalists supported by the Voices of African Migrants pilot programme (see http://migrantvoices.org/), managed by International Media Support (IMS), in four migration ‘Hubs’ in Africa, and explored how local audiences interpreted and responded to those stories. It used content analysis, interviews and focus group discussions.
The research findings show that most stories used human interest frames and foregrounded migrant experiences. The migrants’ main contributions to the stories were to provide a human face to hardships and suffering. Meanwhile, NGOs were included to provide facts, statements of general causes of migrations, statistics, and a sense of scale. Government statements were used to provide a comment on policies and solutions. Most articles were supportive in their sentiments to the plight of migrants.
Participants in the focus groups (especially migrants themselves) recognised that migrant voices were missing from mainstream media reporting on migration, that reporting on migration tends to be negative, and that there are pressing issues relating to migration that need to be discussed in the public sphere.
Focus group participants generally responded with empathy and understanding in response to stories about the hardships migrants face. Some stories provoked a distancing or disruption to understanding, especially when an aspect of the story did not match their prior tacit or cultural knowledge about migration. A small number of stories deeply moved focus group participants.
The report unpacks how an emphasis on ‘voice’ in this context can inadvertently lead to an underinterrogation of systemic and structural issues by individualising, and in some cases, perpetuating a representation of migrants as helpless victims.
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This report draws on the findings of a two-year HPG research project on ‘Dignity in displacement: from rhetoric to reality’. The goal of the project was not to define dignity, but to understand what it meant to affected people in different places, with different cultures and at different times. It explores how refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs) and returnees in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Colombia, Lebanon, the Philippines and South Sudan understand dignity, and whether (and how) they feel that their dignity has been upheld in displacement.
It then compares their understanding with that of humanitarian workers in these responses, analysing what this means for humanitarian policy, programme design and implementation more broadly, and the localisation agenda more specifically.
It suggests six recommendations for incorporating dignity into a humanitarian response including:
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