As the humanitarian crisis reaches catastrophic proportions,Syria needs to open its borders to external aid, while Turkey and its international partners need more long-term planning to meet growing refugee needs and avoid having instability spill over the porous border.Read more<
On April 17, the Senate introduced bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform legislation that recognizes the critical role that immigrants play in our economy. This fact sheet—the third in our series on immigrants and the economy—details five reasons why immigrants are vital for the future productivity of the U.S. labor force while recognizing that long-term labor needs must be addressed through education policy as well.Read more<
Selim and Leila were farmers in Dera'a, southwest Syria, until the day their village was shelled by government forces and they decided to leave the country. This entailed a terrifying nighttime journey on foot through government-held territory, escorted by the Free Syrian Army. To keep the children quiet and avoid detection, they gave them sleeping pills. Many of their relatives are still stuck in Syria.Read more<
Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Anne C. Richard will travel to Switzerland on April 25-27, 2013.Read more<
Church sources in Aleppo and Damascus said the two bishops abducted on Monday remain missing , despite reports they had been freed. Armed militants reportedly seized Yohanna Ibrahim, head of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Aleppo and Boulou Yaziji, leader of the Greek Orthodox Church in Aleppo, in a contested area of northern Aleppo.Read more<
Jordanian demonstrators restricted access to the region’s largest camp of Syrian refugees for several hours on Saturday, delaying water delivery, after a riot in the camp injured 10 Jordanian security officers, one of them critically, officials said.
Kilian Kleinschmidt of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, who is the director of the refugee camp, which is called Zaatari and is near the Syrian border, said Saturday afternoon that the situation was tense but under control after hours of stone-throwing on Friday night.Read more<
Getting the world’s 32 million out-of-school girls back into education will be crucial to end child marriage, state a group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on the eve of a high level roundtable on child marriage, but emphasise that there is no single solution to end a practice that denies an estimated 14 million girls a year their rights to health, education, choice and security.Read more<
Good very morning early to you. (Laughter.) I’m sorry about keeping everybody so long. We never expected to have this meeting be as long, but I think it was a very, very important meeting at which we achieved some significant advances. I begin by thanking my friend, the Foreign Minister of Turkey, who once again has hosted us here and hosted me here, and I thank him for his and the prime ministers of his country’s leadership on this and on other issues on which we’re working closely, and I really appreciated his hospitality.Read more<
Following his meetings with Syrian Coalition President al-Khatib, members of the Coalition’s leadership, and international partners supporting the Syrian opposition, Secretary of State John Kerry announced the United States’ intention to double non-lethal assistance to the Syrian opposition, as well as provide additional humanitarian aid to Syrians in need.Read more<
The Aegis Trust in collaboration with the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre, and Rencontre Africaine pour la Défense des Droits de l'Homme
INVITE YOU to the Geneva launch of 'Against a Tide of Evil'Read more<
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