Message from the United Nations humanitarian, refugee, and development chiefs on the situation in Syria and the region
Statement by the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, and the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Achim Steiner...
Deir ez-Zor residents find help to rebuild lives from the city’s ruins
By Vivian Toumen in Deir ez-Zor, Syria After years of fighting destroyed much of eastern Syria’s largest city and displaced hundreds of thousands of residents, UNHCR is helping families get back on their feet. Standing beside their parched fields on the once fertile...
More support needed as Syrian refugees reach breaking point
With no work and struggling to cope amid Lebanon’s economic crisis, a Syrian refugee family are relying on their 10-year-old daughter’s meagre income to stay afloat By Nadine Mazloum “Sometimes it all feels like it’s not real. You think to yourself, ‘how did we end up...