A Tide of Self-Harm and Depression: The EU-Turkey Deal’s Devastating Impact on Child Refugees and Migrants

This report outlines how the implementation of the EU-Turkey Deal is adversely affecting child refugees and migrants.

Interviews conducted with staff from Save the Children and our partner organization Praksis, who work on the islands, reveal the extent of physical and mental damage happening to child refugees and migrants as they spend their days behind barbed wire, without access to basic services, and under constant police surveillance. In addition to the traumatic events many children have already witnessed in their homeland, some have in the past year survived fires and seen dead bodies, while others have been caught up in or even arrested in protests, fights and demonstrations that frequently sweep the camps.