03/09/2016
The blockade on Gaza, now in its tenth year, has created extremely high unemployment and aid dependency rates in Gaza: in 2016, over 80 per cent of the population depend on humanitarian assistance. Unemployment in the second quarter of 2016 stood at an average of 41 per cent and youth unemployment at 57.6 per cent, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
UNRWA is working on compiling inputs from field offices to feed into the Report of the Secretary-General on the situation of, and assistance to, Palestinian Women, an annual report which presents an overview of the assistance provided to Palestinian women by the entities of the UN system.Year: 2016. Download: English Arabic
Through its Job Creation Programme (JCP), UNRWA addresses these dire economic prospects and provides a source of income, dignity, self-respect and self-reliance for Palestine refugee families.
In the first four months of 2016, UNRWA created skilled and unskilled job opportunities for 8,387 beneficiaries through the JCP, injecting US$ 4.54 million into the Gaza economy.
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03/09/2016
Between 7 July and 26 August 2014, the Gaza Strip experienced the deadliest and most devastating round of hostilities since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967; two years on, most people and institutions are still struggling to cope with their immense losses, reports the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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Besides the massive damage to the enclave’s infrastructure – including hospitals, water and electricity networks, and streets – some 12,500 housing units were totally destroyed and around 6,500 homes were severely damaged; over 19,000 housing units were rendered uninhabitable, states OCHA.
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03/09/2016
You only leave home when home won’t let you stay –Warsan Shire*
© UNICEF/UN024109/Khuzaie | Children and families recently displaced from Fallujah, where the fighting has escalated since May, wait at an arrival area at a camp in Amiriyat Al Fallujah in Anbar province.
Some come from places where war is without end.
The numbers of protracted emergencies – conflicts that have lasted for over five years – are growing.
As well, fifteen new conflicts have broken out or reignited in the past five years.
They flee the brutalities of civil war and gang-related violence, assault, rape, recruitment, disappearance and murder.
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03/09/2016
‘So far this year, the pace of drownings has only increased, setting 2016 on track to become the deadliest on record for those attempting to cross the Mediterranean.’
A young refugee girl cries as she waits for a bus to take her from the shore to a registration centre on the Greek island of Lesvos in this January 2016 file photo. © UNHCR/Hereward Holland
GENEVA, 2 September 2016 (UNHCR) – A year ago today a photograph of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi’s small body washed up on a Turkish beach drew the world’s attention to the shocking danger and unfathomable loss experienced by thousands of refugees desperately trying to reach safety in Europe.
Unfortunately since then, the dangers faced by those fleeing across the Mediterranean have only worsened.
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03/09/2016
The United Nations refugee agency on 2 September 2016 flagged that while the number of deaths of refugees seeking safety via the Turkey-Greece route into Europe has fallen dramatically, the use of the North Africa-Italy route has remained constant – with the latter experiencing an increase in the number of deaths, making 2016 the deadliest year so far for refugees in the Central Mediterranean.
Refugees, primarily from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are helped by volunteers as they disembark boats near Scala, on the island of Lesvos, Greece. Photo: Ashley Gilbertson / VII Photo for UNICEF
“The chances of dying on the Libya to Italy route are ten times higher than when crossing from Turkey to Greece,” a spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), William Spindler, told a media briefing at the UN Office in Geneva today.
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03/09/2016
2 September 2016 – On a visit to northern Jordan today, the top United Nations humanitarian official saw first-hand the conditions that more than 70,000 Syrian refugees, mostly women and children, are having to stay in along the border with Syria – in the middle of the desert, under a blazing sun and with no food or water – amid talks with Jordanian authorities aimed at resolving their plight.
In August 2016, UN agencies provided urgent food items to 75,000 Syrians at the border with Jordan where conditions are very harsh. Jordan sealed the berm area in mid-2016 following an attack at a border post. Photo: UNICEF/Miraj
“We [had to fly] in by helicopter so we could see over the whole area and in between two berms are tens of thousands of tents quite sparsely populated compared to a normal organized refugee camp,” the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien told UN Radio during a telephone call from Jordan.
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