Millions of children in Syria deprived of education, says UNICEF
15 September 2015 – As children around the world return to school, there are more than two million in Syria who will not be able to join them, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) cautioned today, adding that another 400,000 are at risk of dropping out of school as a direct result of conflict, violence […]
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UN Official appeals to security council to find political solution to end nightmare for Syrians
16 September 2015 – The United Nations humanitarian chief today urged the Security Council to find a political solution to end the conflict in Syria, warning its members that the fighting had created one of the largest refugee exoduses since the Second World War. “It is civilians who continue to bear the brunt of this […]
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For those who remain in Syria, daily life is a nightmare
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Every morning, at the dawn call to prayer, women and children move silently from the Damascus suburb of Douma to the surrounding farm fields, seeking safety from the day’s bombardments by the Syrian government. The walk is part of a surreal routine described by the fraction of Douma’s residents who remain: shopping […]
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UNICEF demands that water not be used to achieve military and political gains in Syria
26 August 2015 – Amid the unremitting brutality of the war in Syria and a scorching summer heat wave, there is increasing evidence that parties to the conflict are using water to achieve military and political gains, warned the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). “Clean water is both a basic need and a fundamental right, […]
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3 reasons to help provide clean water
Hawa Guyo of Melbena, Ethiopia is a mother who always carried two children (one in the front and one on her back) as she walked walk eight hours a day to fetch water. Upon arrival…the water was extremely dirty. People and animals used it at the same time. The donkeys and other animals urinated in […]
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Middle East’s largest camp turns three as Syrian refugees in region top four million – UN agency
28 July 2015 – Living conditions for more than half a million refugees living in Jordan is becoming increasingly tough, the United Nations refugee agency warned today on the eve of the third anniversary of the establishment of Za’atari camp, which has grown into the largest refugee camp in the Middle East. “Lines of tents […]
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In quake-stricken Nepal, ’emergency is not over yet,’ warns senior UN relief official
24 July 2015 – Three months after the first of the devastating earthquakes that hit Nepal, hundreds of thousands of survivors continue to require and rely on urgent humanitarian assistance, the top United Nations humanitarian official in the recovering country said today. “The emergency is not over yet,” warned Jamie McGoldrick, the Humanitarian Coordinator in […]
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Syria: bread prices up nearly 90 per cent, pushing more people into hunger, UN report warns
23 July 2015 – Syria’s food production in 2015 remains at 40 per cent below its pre-crisis levels, impacting the price of bread, which has spiralled by 87 per cent, and shrinking poultry production by half, according to a United Nations agency report released today that warns that “the risk of irreversible damage to the […]
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Syria: bread prices up nearly 90 per cent, pushing more people into hunger, UN report warns
13 July 2015 – Syrian children are becoming increasingly vulnerable to water borne illnesses amid peaking summer temperatures and dwindling supplies of safe water, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today. “The situation is alarming particularly for children who are susceptible to water borne diseases,” Hanaa Singer, UNICEF’s Representative in Syria reported in a […]
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Syrian refugee numbers pass four million as war rages on, UN
9 July 2015 – The exodus spawned by the four-year long Syrian conflict has now become the United Nations refugee agency’s largest crisis in almost a quarter of a century and risks deteriorating even further as fighting in the country shows no sign of abating. In a news release issued earlier today, the Office of […]
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