Mental Health Crisis Affecting Iraqi Refugees

Aid Agencies Warn of Mental Health Crisis Affecting Iraqi Refugees

Henry Ridgwell

Published March 09, 2016

Aid agencies working in Iraq say there is a desperate need to train more mental health professionals to treat the survivors of Islamic State kidnappings and attacks. They cite the traumas of hundreds of ethnic Yazidi women, who are still being held as sex slaves by the terror group. VOA’s Henry Ridgwell reports.

 


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