Life Through a Lens
More than half of the 3 million people driven into exile by the conflict in Syria are children. Haunted by violence and loss, they have also been deprived of a voice. At Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan, a UNHCR workshop entitled “Do You See What I See” has been giving...
Family Ties
Syria’s bloody civil war has displaced almost half the country’s population, with more than 3 million refugees registered in the region. Over the past couple months alone, more than 200,000 Syrian Kurds have fled the besieged city of Kobane into neighbouring...
WFP food cuts threaten tens of thousands of Syrian families, UNHCR warns
GENEVA, December 1 (UNHCR) –The UN refugee agency today called for urgent international support to the World Food Programme (WFP), which has been forced to suspend food assistance for more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees because of a funding crisis. “This...