Wars, climate change, funding cuts: World Food Program battles to give hope
Rome: His job is to feed the desperate. Two months ago, he had to face the fact that he could not. In September Muhannad Hadi made one of the hardest decisions of his career. He had to deny hope to...
View ArticleUN seeks $4.63 billion to aid Syrian refugees and host nations (UNHCR -...
(Source: UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Syrian refugee Mais, and her younger sister Anaghem, stand at the door of their apartment in Amman, Jordan, in this 2014...
View ArticleUN seeks $4.63 bln aid for Syrian refugees and host nations (UNHCR - Office...
(Source: UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Syrian refugee Mais, and her younger sister Anaghem, stand at the door of their apartment in Amman, Jordan, in this 2014...
View ArticleAfter Isis: the families returning home in Iraq
While the battle for Mosul rages, residents are returning to the ghost town of Jalawla. Can they rebuild their lives after a year of occupation?...
View ArticleYemen's Hidden War
Dawn is just breaking on June 5th at Djibouti's international airport, but it's already boiling hot on the tarmac. Mohammed Issa, a rotund and mustachioed border-police officer, gestures to a massive...
View ArticleWorld Food Program cuts aid to Syrian refugees in Jordan
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) The World Food Program announced new cuts Friday in food aid for Syrian refugees in Jordan, highlighting a growing funding crisis of international agencies helping millions...
View ArticleWatch List 2017
Global Overview Whether unprecedented or not, the challenges currently facing our global security are immense and cause for considerable alarm. It is difficult to think of a time in recent history when...
View ArticleThe Global Refugee Crisis: Humanity’s Last Call for a Culture of Sharing and...
The real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe per se but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism, which is...
View ArticleThe Global Refugee Crisis Humanity's Last Call for a Culture of Sharing and...
The real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe per se but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism, which is...
View ArticleIn Jordan, Sudanese live in fear of deportation
For two years, Habiba lived with her two children and husband in Amman. Life could be tough for the refugee family. Little food, little money. But they were together and grateful to be in Jordan, away...
View ArticleJordan cracks (down) under refugee pressure
The Sudanese asylum seekers and refugees had been protesting for more than a month when the police came to deport them late December. Hundreds were camped outside the Amman offices of the UN’s refugee...
View ArticleImmigration Minister Peter Dutton visits Zaatari refugee camp, reaffirms policy
Jordan: Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has walked the dusty streets of the world's second-biggest refugee camp and the sight of children who have lost their homes through war has reinforced his...
View ArticleWhy denying refugees the right to work is a catastrophic error
It’s not just fleeing conflict that makes victims out of refugees – it’s also denying them the means to become autonomous and productive...
View ArticleUN Cuts Food Aid To Syrian Refugees In Jordan, Needs Donors To 'Step Up To ...
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The World Food Program announced new cuts Friday in food aid for Syrian refugees in Jordan, highlighting a growing funding crisis of international agencies helping millions...
View ArticleJordan looks to turn refugee crisis into economic boon
Last February, Jordan and the international community agreed on a radically new approach to the Syrian refugee crisis. Instead of viewing refugees as a burden that could only be alleviated by...
View ArticleAP PHOTOS: Editor selections from the Middle East for 2015
As 2015 comes to a close, The Associated Press is looking back at the year's events as seen by photojournalists in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was a year dominated by war and unrest...
View ArticleREGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE (UNOG - United Nations...
(Source: UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva) Where global solutions are shaped for you | News & Media | REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE Michele Zaccheo, Officer-in-Charge of...
View ArticleKingdom of Refugees
Jordan is the sum of its neighbors’ wars. Three journalists follow a family’s quest for medical care and investigate the Syrian narrative in the kingdom. Story by Emma Pearson and Katie Welsford....
View ArticleCanada's swift resettlement offers hope to Syria refugees
The only thing Mohammed, a civil war refugee from Syria, knew about Canada was that it's a bit cold. Yet he accepted on the spot when asked if he wanted to settle there and be ready to travel before...
View ArticleSyrian Crisis - UN Response (UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva)
(Source: UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva) 9 June 2016 UN reiterates call for humanitarian access in Syria On 8 June, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) received...
View Article“We’re Afraid for Their Future”
Summary Today, Syrian refugee children in Jordan face a bleak educational present, and an uncertain future. Close to one in three—226,000 out of 660,000—Syrians registered with the United Nations...
View ArticleAustralia's refugee intake program may not deliver by Christmas
Amman: Australia's humanitarian effort to resettle refugees is pushing ahead, with a new estimate that 1000 displaced Syrians and Iraqis will be on an Immigration Department list of "potential...
View ArticleUN agencies deliver urgent relief to people stranded at Syria-Jordan border...
(Source: UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) AMMAN - World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Ertharin Cousin, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
View ArticleSyrian refugees: four million people forced to flee as crisis deepens
Largest exodus from a single conflict in a generation places humanitarian system under increasing financial strain...
View ArticleA red and rocky road to Petra, Jordan
It was late morning and I was sitting on a rock atop a mountain in southern Jordan, munching on a date and taking in the vast panorama of the Great Rift Valley spread out before me. This spectacle was...
View ArticleSyrian refugees' misery fuels desperation to reach Europe
DEIR ZANOUN, Lebanon (AP) -- Both women fled Syria after their normal lives were destroyed in the country's civil war. Both are desperate to start a new life and see Europe as their best hope. But...
View ArticleJordan: Deporting Sudanese Asylum Seekers (HRW - Human Rights Watch)
(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) (Amman) - Jordanian authorities on December 16, 2015, detained and said they will deport about 800 Sudanese asylum seekers back to Sudan. The vast majority of...
View ArticleEasy Prey: Criminal Violence and Central American Migration (International...
(Source: International Crisis Group) Executive Summary Massive deportations from Mexico and the U.S. have failed to stem the tide of Central Americans fleeing endemic poverty combined with epidemic...
View ArticleREGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
17 October 2017 Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration,...
View ArticleSyrian refugees: 4 million people forced to flee as crisis deepens
Largest exodus from a single conflict in a generation places humanitarian system under increasing financial strain...
View ArticleWFP Forced To Make Deeper Cuts In Food Assistance For Syrian Refugees Due To...
(Source: WFP - World Food Programme) AMMAN - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is being forced to implement deeper cuts in food assistance for vulnerable Syrian refugees in Lebanon and...
View ArticleJordan homestays embrace sustainable tourism
As the muezzin's early morning call to prayer echoes around the narrow, dusty streets of Orjan, Mohamad Dwekat and his wife, Maysoon, begin their day. Here in the Al Ayoun region of Jordan, about an...
View ArticleWFP to cut food aid to Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan
The World Food Programme (WFP) says it will halve the value of food vouchers for Syrian refugees in Lebanon in July and may halt such aid for those in Jordan the following month due to a funding...
View ArticleUN Agencies Deliver Urgent Relief To People Stranded At Syria-Jordan Border...
(Source: WFP - World Food Programme) AMMAN - World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Ertharin Cousin, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi, UNICEF Executive...
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