High Commissioner’s statement at the 7th Brussels Conference on Supporting the future of Syria and the region
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi | 15 June 2023 We are here for the seventh time in Brussels. I have asked myself what has changed for the Syrian people since this Conference last convened. Sadly the answer is not positive. Poverty is deepening in...
UNHCR: Islamic giving plays increasing role in helping the forcibly displaced
This is a summary of what was said by Khaled Khalifa, Senior Advisor to the High Commissioner and UNHCR Representative to Gulf Cooperation Council Countries – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in...
Twelve years on, Syrian refugees face deepening debt and hunger
As their displacement drags on and host countries struggle with multiple crises, Syrian refugees around the region are slipping further into poverty. By Paula Barrachina and Dalal Harb in Beirut, Lebanon | 15 March 2023 “When I fled my home in Homs, Syria, 12 years...