Syria is a “hemorrhaging country,” says Panos Moumtzis, the UNHCR’s regional refugee coordinator for the Syria crisis. He spoke with Syria Deeply founder Lara Setrakian in a Google Hangout this week, shortly after Syria’s official refugee toll hit the 1 million mark.
As the conflict draws on in Syria, many women and children are facing the harsh winter with little food or warm clothing in refugee camps. We hear the story of one such pregnant woman, Ayesha.
Last Stop, Tel Aviv is the story of the 60,000 asylum seekers living in Israel. Escaping dictatorships and indefinite military conscription, Africans flee their homelands in the hope of a better life, but arrive to find that they are criminalized, vilified, and unrecognised in the Israeli state.
What is life like for the thousands of Syrians displaced by the ongoing civil war in their country to camps such as the Islahiyeh refugee camp in southern Turkey where 8,000 Syrians currently live.
As women flee the violence in Syria, they face abuses as refugees in the Middle East with some Arab men demanding marriage for them in order to “protect their virtue and honour”