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Inside Afghanistan’s ‘appalling’ refugee camps
It has come to this. A woman sits in the mud and puddles. The snow falls relentlessly. It is minus 6 degrees, even at 11 in the morning. But sit here she must.
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The number of refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war has topped two million, the UN’s refugee agency says, in what it is calling the “great tragedy of this century”.
A flood of 30,000 Syrian refugees have entered Kurdish Iraq in the past three days. It is the biggest single wave of refugees to leave Syria since the 2011 uprising started says the UN.
On World Refugee Day, Reem Alsalem from UNHCR writes for Channel 4 News on the refugees who came to Syria to start a new life – but find themselves trapped in a new crisis.
Journalists are not universally admired, but as I found after making a film about the plight of Burma’s Rohingya Muslims, what we do often pricks the consciences of the poweful.
Missile and mortar attacks in Aleppo and Syria, fierce clashes and claims of chemical weapon use – a typical week in Syria paints a grim picture of a country at war.
The prime minister’s wife, Samantha Cameron expressed her shock and dismay at the stories Syrian refugees told her while she visited them in Lebanon.
It has come to this. A woman sits in the mud and puddles. The snow falls relentlessly. It is minus 6 degrees, even at 11 in the morning. But sit here she must.
The UN human rights commissioner didn’t mince her words this week when she accused the Sri Lankan government of “triumphalism” in the Tamil north, home of the vanquished Tamil Tiger insurgency.
Refugees have been pouring over the border from Syria into Jordan in the last 24 hours, and the UNHCR is warning about conditions in the camps holding them after three children died this week.
Healthcare professionals in Syria caring for the war-wounded are being deliberately targeted by Bashir al-Assad’s regime, says the International Rescue Committee.
The United Nations has dramatically raised the number of people killed in the Syrian uprising and civil war – calling the death toll “truly shocking”. Dozens more people died in attacks today.
Exclusive: The British government is sending a team of experts to the Syrian region to gather evidence on warzone rape – a move backed by UN special envoy and actress Angelina Jolie.
The United Nations warns that the number of people within Syrian needing humanitarian aid will soar from 2.5 million to around 4 million by early next year.
As Turkey’s retaliation to Syria’s mortar attack on a Turkish town marks a new low in relations between the neighbouring countries, Channel 4 News looks into the background of the latest skirmishes.
More than 200,000 Syrians have fled into neighbouring countries during the conflict, already surpassing the UN’s expectation of 185,000 refugees by the end of the year.