10 Dec 2014
10 Dec 2014
A Piece of Me: From Syria to New York City
In a dusty tent city home to tens of thousands of refugees, dozens of teenage Syrian youth wrote, filmed, directed
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09 Dec 2014
09 Dec 2014
Take in Syrian refugees, aid agencies tell rich countries
A coalition of 36 international organisations is calling on rich countries to resettle tens of thousands of Syrian refugees within
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09 Dec 2014
09 Dec 2014
Syria Tops List of Massive UN Aid Appeal
The United Nations on Monday requested $16.4 billion from its members for aid work in 2015, with nearly half of
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09 Dec 2014
Thousands of Syrian refugees stranded in minefield
A human rights watchdog urged Turkey on Wednesday to remove from its border with Syria landmines which have killed three
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09 Dec 2014
EU institutions must react to suspension of UN’s food aid to Syrian refugees
On 1 December, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) announced it had been forced to suspend a critical food aid
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09 Dec 2014
457 Syrian refugees resettled in Canada, but pledge was for 1,300
The government faces a difficult challenge to fulfil its commitment to resettle 1,300 Syrian refugees by the end of this
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09 Dec 2014
Gulf countries’ failure to take Syrian refugees ‘shameful’: Amnesty
Wealthy Gulf states have failed to resettle a single refugee from the Syrian conflict – a “particularly shameful” omission by
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