How media framed Mediterranean tragedies: an analysis

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 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 Wendy Bruere RAMTHA, Jordan, 19 June 2012 – Reem* and her six children fled their home in southern Syria in February after her husband Abood* was abducted by armed men. The children were between ages 5 and 18. “The children were scared and insecure when we first came to Jordan,” Reem said. ...

AMMAN/GENEVA, 29 June 2012 – UNICEF urgently requires $14.4 million to meet the emergency needs of a growing number of Syrian refugee children and young people. With 86,000 Syrians registered as refugees in four countries – 50 per cent of them children and young people – the revised UNHCR-led Syr...

Syrian refugee children in Jordan have already been through so much. UNICEF & partners are doing everything we can to give these children a sense of normalcy - Dominique Hyde, UNICEF Jordan Representative

UNICEF and partners continue to provide humanitarian assistance for Syrian children and families in Jordan