GENEVA, March 13 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency announced on Tuesday the appointment of a veteran of emergency operations to coordinate its approach to the refugee crisis in Syria and neighbouring countries, which have received some 30,000 Syrian civilians. As Regional Refugee Coordinator, Panos...

On 27 March 2012 the first Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg approved a humanitarian assistance to the Syrian refugees. The assistance reaches the amount of CZK 3 million and will be provided through the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which approved its re...

AMMAN — The number of registered Syrian refugees in Jordan has topped 10,000 as UN officials prepare to step up their response to the growing number of vulnerable Syrians pouring into the Kingdom. According to Andrew Harper, UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) representative in Jordan, the number of Syrian...

By Simon Ingram MA’AN, Jordan, 22 March 2012 – Peering intently at the scrap of pink material in her hands, 12-year-old Omaima* is a picture of concentration. Around her, about 20 other girls are busily wielding needles and thread and following the instructions of their teacher. This weekly sewi...

By Samir Badran MA’AN, Jordan, 8 March 2012 – On a cold February day, Syrian refugee children and their parents gathered at the Jordan Hashemite Fund for Human Development (JOHUD) Centre, a UNICEF partner, in the southern Jordanian town of Ma’an. They are some of the thousands of Syrians who have ...

By Najwa Mekki RAMTHA, Jordan, 23 December 2011 – As I pull out my camera, Salwa looks at me and blurts out, “No, no pictures, please. Otherwise the police will slaughter us.” She is 5 years old. Salwa is one of thousands of Syrians who have come to Jordan over the past few months, fleeing unres...

24 April 2012 – The United Nations food agency today announced it is stepping up its assistance to reach, by the end of the month, a quarter of a million Syrians who have been affected by unrest in the Middle Eastern country, adding that it plans to double this amount in the coming weeks. “As the c...

AMMAN — The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Jordan on Tuesday reported that over 6,000 Syrians registered with the agency over the last month, doubling the total number of Syrians registered as refugees. In a statement issued yesterday, the agency said the total number of registered refugees has exc...

By Taylor Luck RAMTHA/MAFRAQ — Despite a broad smile and a love for football, it is one indistinguishable trait that sets Samer apart from his classmates and made the nine-year-old the most popular kid in school the moment he first took his seat. Samer is Syrian. “All his Jordanian classmate...

By Wendy Bruere MAFRAQ/AMMAN, Jordan, 4 June 2012 – On their way to school in Homs last year, 9-year-old twins Seema* and Nour* saw dead bodies in the street. “They came home very upset,” said their father, Amjad*. “Now they are afraid of loud noises.” The two girls stopped going to school a...