"We need to get those children out of the cmaps & the prisons that they're living in" @SavetheChildren #Syria Response Director Sonia Khush tells @MiddleEastInst @ICSR_Centre
"There is a lot of hope for them to live a normal life" if they can get out of the camps, she says
"There is a lot of hope for them to live a normal life" if they can get out of the camps, she says
Children stuck in IDP camps, prisons in NE #Syria are not the next wave of #ISIS - they are victims, per @SavetheChildren's Khush
Children in NE #Syria IDP camps - "Repatriations are not an insurmountable problem" per @hrw's @lettatayler "There is a lack of political will"
Per @hrw's @lettatayler, there is a track record now of repatriated children doing well, getting better - something they can not do in places like #alHol, #alRoj or rehabilitation centers in NE #Syria
"Take the kids out with their parents who can be repatriated" per @hrw's @lettatayler "The perfect should not be the enemy of the good"
"Children are being punished for the apparent crimes of their parents"
NE #Syria
"Children are being punished for the apparent crimes of their parents"
NE #Syria
"The longer the children stay in the camps, the harder it will be to reach them" per @SavetheChildren's Khush
"If you leave them in the camps they will be attracted to any group that shows them attention & care...we fear those will be armed groups"
"If you leave them in the camps they will be attracted to any group that shows them attention & care...we fear those will be armed groups"
Risk of radicalization - poor conditions in the IDP camps "feeding these resentments" that put children at greater risk for radicalization, per @RefugeesIntl's Sahar Atrache
"It's not just the ideology" from #ISIS
"It's not just the ideology" from #ISIS
Deradicalization/rehabilitation efforts for children in the IDP camps in NE #Syria - "Whatever we're doing is a drop in the bucket and is in no way meeting the needs" per @SavetheChildren's Khush
For some of the children, the idea of deradicalization is a non-starter,
"There is so much work to do w/these boys to get them to de-stress" before you can even think abt deradicalization, per @SavetheChildren's Khush
"There is so much work to do w/these boys to get them to de-stress" before you can even think abt deradicalization, per @SavetheChildren's Khush
"What they really need bcs they've been through such a trauma, is psycho-social support" per @RefugeesIntl Atrache
"Mothers told me in #Roj that they were hiding their boys in tents" to stop them from being taken away by #SDF guards & to prevent them from before forced to join cliques of hardline kids and/or bullied, per @hrw's @lettatayler
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