{"id":16761,"date":"2026-05-12T11:59:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=16761"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:59:38","slug":"who-warns-of-rising-mental-health-crisis-among-displaced-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=16761","title":{"rendered":"WHO Warns of Rising Mental Health Crisis Among Displaced Populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-section-id=\"1e3x7xh\" data-start=\"720\" data-end=\"756\"><span role=\"text\"><strong data-start=\"724\" data-end=\"754\">Geneva, Switzerland (HRNW)-\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>On <strong data-start=\"834\" data-end=\"849\">10 May 2026<\/strong>, the World Health Organization (WHO) expressed concern over increasing mental health challenges among refugees and displaced communities worldwide.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"999\" data-end=\"1276\">According to WHO experts, prolonged conflicts, displacement, and economic hardships are contributing to anxiety, depression, and trauma-related disorders. The agency urged governments and humanitarian partners to prioritize mental health support in emergency response programs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1278\" data-end=\"1415\"><strong data-start=\"1278\" data-end=\"1297\">Support Appeal:<\/strong><br data-start=\"1297\" data-end=\"1300\" \/>Support the world\u2019s 1st Human Rights News Portal HRNW in its noble mission:<br data-start=\"1375\" data-end=\"1378\" \/><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?page_id=1083\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1378\" data-end=\"1413\">https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?page_id=1083<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva, Switzerland (HRNW)-\u00a0On 10 May 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) expressed concern over increasing mental health challenges among refugees and displaced communities worldwide. According to WHO experts, prolonged conflicts, displacement, and economic hardships are contributing to anxiety, depression, and trauma-related disorders. The agency urged governments and humanitarian partners to prioritize mental health support in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16763,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16761\/revisions\/16763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}