Syrian refugees

Five billion euros ($5.4 billion) in aid for Syrian refugees were promised by international donors on Monday, with the EU leading the charge. Brussels maintained that the migrants should not be “pushed back” to their war-torn...

This week, the Za’atari camp in Jordan, the temporary residence for 80,000 Syrian refugees, celebrated its tenth anniversary, according to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. The Agency emphasized the need for long-term solutions for refugees despite...

United Nations Agencies and NGO partners today released the 2018 Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP), a USD 4.4 billion plan designed to support over five million refugees from Syria and the vulnerable communities hosting them...

News Hour: The World Food Programme (WFP) has provided vital food assistance to the most vulnerable Syrian refugees in Lebanon this winter thanks to generous contributions from the Government of Mexico and other donors. “WFP monthly...

News Hour: The World Food Programme (WFP) received this month a generous donation of US$500,000 from the People’s Republic of China to support WFP to provide food assistance for some 15,700 of the most vulnerable Syrian...

News Hour: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today transferred US$9.8 million onto the electronic food assistance cards which it provides to Syrian refugees in Lebanon. This funding, from Canada, will benefit more than 310,000...

News Hour: With the conflict in Syria well into its sixth year and with little progress on the political front, United Nations Agencies and NGO partners today appealed for US$4.69 billion in new funding to continue...

News Hour: IOM, with support from the US State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM), and in coordination with UNHCR and other implementing partners, has helped resettle more than 10,000 Syrian refugees to the...

During 2015, an estimated 1,008,616 fled to Europe by sea. 84% of them came from refugee-producing countries, with 49% of them coming from Syria, 21% from Afghanistan and 9% from Iraq. 17% were women and 25%...

News Hour: A startling four in five Syrian refugees in Jordan are living below the poverty line, an increase from 2015, says a new study from CARE International. The report, “Six years into exile”, points to...