23/11/2019
This is a summary of what was said by Fran Equiza, UNICEF Representative in Syria – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
GENEVA, 21 November 2019 (UNICEF)* — “With more than 5 million children in need of humanitarian assistance inside Syria, including 2.6 million internally displaced children: the scale, severity and complexity of the crisis is staggering.
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09/11/2019
On 26 Oct, the New York Times headlined “Keep the Oil’: Trump Revives Charged Slogan for New Syria Troop Mission” and opened by saying that “in recent days, Mr. Trump has settled on Syria’s oil reserves as a new rationale for appearing to reverse course and deploy hundreds of additional troops to the war-ravaged country.”
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05/11/2019
By UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore*
NEW YORK, 4 November 2019 (UNICEF)* -– “The latest escalation in northeast Syria brings a renewed urgency for governments to repatriate foreign children stranded in the area before it is too late.
© UNICEF/Delil Souleimain Families fleeing escalating violence in northeast Syria arrive in Tal Tamar. They arrive with the bare essentials they were able to carry as they fled the violence.
National governments have the responsibility and opportunity now to do the right thing and bring these children and their parents home where they can receive adequate care and be safe from violence and abuse.
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23/10/2019
After nearly two weeks of fighting in northeast Syria, the UN’s huhumanitarian wing has estimated that around 180,000 have been forced to leave their homes or sheltermanitarian wing has estimated that around 180,000 have been forced to leave their homes or shelters, including 80,000 children, all in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.*
© UNHCR/Hossein Fatemi | A four-year-old girl wanders in Bardarash camp in Duhok, Iraq, one of thousands of Syria refugees who have fled fighting in the northeast of their country.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA) reported on Tuesday
[22 October 2019] that despite a shaky five-day ceasefire, airstrikes and a ground offensive launched by Turkey on 9 October, targeting Kurdish held areas across the border, has had a “significant humanitarian impact.”
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21/10/2019
Syrian families fleeing air strikes and shelling in north-east Syria. Photo: Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP NTB Scanpix | Photo posted here from NRC.
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03/09/2019
By Charlie Dunmore in Beirut, Lebanon*
By offering basic literacy and numeracy courses, the Borderless Centre in Beirut is part of a nationwide drive to get refugee children out of work and into school. | عربي
Syrian refugee Fahed pictured in Beirut, Lebanon.© UNHCR/Diego Ibarra Sánchez
2 September 2019 (UNHCR)* — In a small classroom overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, young Syrian refugees learn mathematics on portable computers – their first steps towards formal education. A few months ago, most of them were trying to make a living on the streets of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
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31/07/2019
Bombing and shelling in Syria for more than 90 days by the Government and Russia have led to “carnage in the so-called de-escalation zone” of Idlib, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council on Tuesday [30 July 2019], in his seventh update since the “current onslaught” began.
© UNICEF/UN0318979/Ashawi | Families spend the night in a makeshift camp in Atmah village near the Turkish border with nothing more than blankets and bedsheets hung from olive trees to protect them for the elements, after hostilities in northern Hama, southern Idlib and western Aleppo governorates in Syria continued unabated. (June 2019)
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27/07/2019
The relentless campaign of airstrikes in Syria has been met with a “collective shrug,” the top United Nations human rights official said on Friday [26 July 2019], denouncing the world’s apparent indifference to the mounting civilian casualties as a “failure of leadership” by the world’s most powerful countries.
© OCHA/Hedinn Halldorsson | An estimated 26,000 children aged 3-17 in Al Hol camp of Syria’s Hasakeh governorate have been out of schools for years due to conflict and displacement and are in need of education services.
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19/07/2019
After 80 days of intensifying attacks, many on health facilities, “the carnage must stop” in northwest Syria, said the UN relief chief on Thursday [18 July 2019], noting that more than 70 civilians had been killed this month alone across the last rebel-held enclave of the country.
UNICEF/Aaref Watad | Families take shelter in a makeshift camp, 50 kilometers north of Idlib, in Syria. Since the beginning of September 2018, thousands of people have been displaced, following an escalation of hostilities in the country’s northwest.
“People around the world have watched in horror as war planes and artillery shelling kill and injure civilians and destroy civilian infrastructure.
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17/07/2019
UNICEF calls for improved humanitarian access and protection of children including re-integration into local communities and safe return to home countries
DAMASCUS, 17 July 2019 (UNICEF)* — Taking cover from the sun at the entrance of a tent, 14-year-old Afraa, originally from Iraq, waits for her two younger siblings to be examined.
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