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Telegraph.co.uk
April 26, 2018
“Yarmouk was a refugee camp that had already been transformed into a death camp, and even in that state it has just experienced a week of really intense fighting,” said Christopher Gunness, a spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), the agency for Palestinian refugees. “Things haveÃâà...
Reliefweb
April 25, 2018
“However, the unresolved situation of tens of thousands of Syrians stranded at the northeastern border with Syria, and the thousands of refugees held in village 5 of Azraq refugee camp casts a shadow on Jordan's efforts” comments Ferhan “At a time when the situation in Syria is not conducive to the safeÃâà...
Doctors Without Borders
April 24, 2018
Syrians already experienced difficulties in accessing basic health care in Jordan after a previous decision in November 2014 to cancel free medical services for Syrians living outside refugee camps. According to a survey of Syrian refugees conducted by MSF in Jordan in 2016, roughly 30 percent of adultsÃâà...
Haaretz
April 16, 2018
Syrian refugees listen during a news conference of the UN high commissioner for refugees at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, February 12, 2018. ... “We can't tell any more who's Jordanian and who's a refugee,” says a lecturer at Amman University who had also lived in Israel and the U.S. “The state hasÃâà...
The National
April 15, 2018
Doctors from the UAE will provide psychological support for refugees living in a camp jointly run by the Emirates and Jordan. Volunteer doctors from Emirates Red Crescent discussed the plans for the programmes on Sunday during their visit to Mrajeeb Al Fhood refugee camp in Jordan. The camp, locatedÃâà...
MIT Technology Review
April 11, 2018
Today he's wearing a black sweater tucked into denim jeans, which are themselves tucked into calf-high boots caked in mud. The Tazweed Supermarket, where he's shopping, is on the periphery of a 75,000-person refugee camp in the semi-arid Jordanian steppe, six and a half miles from the Syrian borderÃâà...
Around the Rings
April 9, 2018
On Friday April 6, Peace and Sport brought together 150 young refugees in the Za'atari camp in Jordan to celebrate the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace in partnership with the Jordanian NOC, the International Teqball Federation (FITEQ), the International Table Tennis FederationÃâà...
Pacific Standard
April 2, 2018
"Refugee camps are an extreme expression of how disruptive our relationship with the planet and between people is," Dittrich says. ... In May of 2017, three years into its existence with only sporadic access to electricity during that time, the Jordanian camp Azraq become the first refugee camp in the world toÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 1, 2018
Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan - Dusty, arid and unforgiving: Jordan's desert that houses the Zaatari refugee camp was previously unoccupied. As the Syrian war escalated, the camp emerged almost overnight, housing the Syrians fleeing the violence. The camp is located about 2km from the Syrian borderÃâà...
gulfnews.com
March 14, 2018
The two sides held talks at the Jordanian Foreign Ministry headquarters, emphasising the fraternal ties between the UAE and Jordan, adding that these ... the issue of Syrian refugees, where Al Safadi noted that Jordan currently hosts 1.3 million Syrian refugees, with ten percent residing in refugee camps.
CapitalGazette.com
March 14, 2018
A senior Jordanian government official said health subsidies were cut because Jordan is in an economic crisis. Syrian refugees are now paying health fees comparable to those charged to Jordanians, he said. Jordan remains on "high moral ground" for hosting the refugees at all, said the official, who spokeÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 14, 2018
She arrived at the UAE-Jordanian refugee camp in 2013, when she was just a child. In 2016, when she turned 15, her family engaged her to be married. Fatma's wedding was scheduled to take place one year later. However, before becoming a bride, she took part in child protection workshops run by Tdh.
Budget
March 13, 2018
Herrera of Berlin met Hochstetler, who hails from Millersburg, during her work in the Eleonas Refugee Camp in Greece last year. The duo is working to raise awareness of the refugee crisis as well as funds to return to help the hurting through Project Elea. The pair hosted the forum last week that alsoÃâà...
Hartford Courant
March 12, 2018
“It's such an overcrowded space in the refugee camps, their immune systems have been compromised,” he said. “They're packed in, and they ... In 2015, he visited the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, a now-permanent settlement for Syrians fleeing the country's brutal civil war. “We thought that was one ofÃâà...
Petra News Agency
March 4, 2018
27, 2018, targets Syrians who left refugee camps without a permit before July 1, 2017, and haven't returned since then, in addition to Syrians whom entered ... This grace period granted to illegally residing Syrians is a real opportunity to rectify their resident status in accordance with the Jordanian laws thatÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 3, 2018
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is facing the most difficult financial situation since its inception in 1949. Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs and the co-chairing Foreign Ministers of Jordan and Egypt are therefore convening an extraordinaryÃâà...
Norwegian Refugee Council
March 2, 2018
Azraq camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan was built for people who fled the war in Syria. The camp was established in April 2014 due to the influx of Syrian refugees crossing the border into Jordan. It is home to around 35,000 refugees, more than half of whom are young boys and girls living in the middle ofÃâà...
Science Magazine
February 28, 2018
In 2015, in the name of science, more than 800 teenage boys and girls in northern Jordan each allowed 100 strands of hair to be snipped from the crowns of their heads. Roughly half the teens were Syrian refugees, the other half Jordanians living in the area. The hair, molecular biologist Rana DajaniÃâà...
NPR
February 22, 2018
Fig and pomegranate trees, grapes, carrots, and narcissus flowers are some of the plants that Aveen Ismail likes to grow in the Domiz refugee camp in Northern .... The Trust is also currently working in Jordan and Uganda and plans to branch out into other regions in Iraq, as well as potentially in Greece andÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 22, 2018
On 28 January, UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie visited Zaatari refugee camp to meet with Syrian refugees. She called on world leaders to end the conflict, impressing upon the UN Security Council members to visit the refugee camps and meet with urban refugees in Jordan to observe first-hand theirÃâà...
Jordan Times
February 18, 2018
AMMAN — The overall number of registered Syrian refugees in Jordan slightly increased from 655,344 in 2016 to 655,624 in 2017, while the number of Syrian refugees inside refugee camps dropped from 141,070 in 2016 to 139,552 in 2017, according to the UNHCR. Of the total 655,624 Syrian refugeesÃâà...
Jordan Times
February 18, 2018
AMMAN — The overall number of registered Syrian refugees in Jordan slightly increased from 655,344 in 2016 to 655,624 in 2017, while the number of Syrian refugees inside refugee camps dropped from 141,070 in 2016 to 139,552 in 2017, according to the UNHCR. Of the total 655,624 Syrian refugeesÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 14, 2018
AMMAN, 13th February, 2018 (WAM) -- A delegation from the Cancer Patient Care Society (CPCS)–Rahma, led by its Director-General Nora Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi, visited the UAE-Jordanian Mrajeeb Al Fhood refugee camp in Jordan, to raise the awareness of Syrian refugees about cancer and helpÃâà...
Jordan Times
February 12, 2018
ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi on Sunday said that there has not been any decision whatsoever to cut the aid to UNHCR or any other organisation providing support to the Syrian refugees in Jordan. Speaking at a pressÃâà...
Jordan Times
February 11, 2018
AMMAN — Jordan on Sunday rejected as groundless claims by media reports that weapons were being smuggled from Iraq into Jordan to the Palestinian refugee camps in the Kingdom. The Jordanian borders with Iraq are completely under control by the authorities and the security apparatuses in theÃâà...
SBS
February 7, 2018
The Zaatari Refugee Camp is at the forefront of the effort to provide stability, shelter and assistance to the many who now find themselves unable to return home. Just 15 kilometres from the Syria-Jordan border, Zaatari has hosted nearly half a million registered refugees in the seven years it has beenÃâà...
InfoMigrants
December 31, 1999
In refugee camps in Jordan and Turkey, having transportation to and from school can often determine whether thousands of Syrian refugee children will have the chance to get an ... In the Jordanian refugee camp of Azraq, children used to have to walk up to two kilometers to be able to go to school.
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
AMMAN, Feb 25 (KUNA) -- Kuwait's voluntary team "Shefaa" has offered due medical care to 660 Syrian patients, during an ongoing humanitarian trip at refugee camps in Jordan. The team has also performed eight successful surgeries, one for a two-year-old boy, and the other for a senile, member Dr. AliÃâà...
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