Syria
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Australia Rescues Children of Dead Islamic State Fighters
Sydney, Australia. Australia has rescued the children and grandchildren of two dead Islamic State fighters from a Syrian refugee camp. The Australian prime minister Scott…
Young Global Leadership Needed to Combat Threat of Climate Change
By Adam Shlomi, 2019 Luce 24 Under 24 Award Recipient Washington, D.C. As the world begins to face the realities of climate change, which is a global threat to our way of…
Good News: Charity to Proceed With Resettling Syrian Refugees in Texas
Houston, TX. The agency handling refugee resettlement in Dallas is going ahead with plans to receive two Syrian refugee families Friday, in defiance of a block on such ac…
Humanitarian Organizations Call for Action to End Suffering in Syria
New York, N.Y. Outlining a series of immediate, practical steps that can improve humanitarian access and the delivery of aid to those in need inside Syria, more than 120…
U.N. reaches families with food in the besieged town of Darayya
10 June 2016 – The United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) today announced it delivered food for the first time since 2012 to the besieged town of Darayya, a suburb o…
'Status Quo Simply Cannot Continue in Syria' – U.N. Chief
New York, N.Y. More than five years since the unrest in Syria began, senior United Nations officials today stressed to the Security Council that the status quo in the war…
#AidRefugees Campaign Provides Way to Help Those in Need
Washington, D.C. Images of refugees streaming into Europe from conflict-torn countries in recent weeks have deeply moved people around the world, many of them wondering,…
Attempt to Assist LGBT Persons Targeted by ISIS Applauded
Washington, D.C. In a statement released by the White House: The United States welcomes today’s first-ever “Arria formula” discussion by the U.N. Security Council of how…
Ban Warns of ‘Misplaced Suspicions’ of Muslim Refugees, Migrants
New York, N.Y. As last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut continue to reverberate round the world with calls to restrict refugee and migrant movement in the nam…
Burns: U.S. Must Continue To Take In Refugees, End Anti-Moslem Rhetoric
Cambridge, MA. In an recent interview entitled Professor Nicholas Burns Responds to the House Vote on Syrian Refugees, university professor, columnist, lecturer, and form…
European Border Restrictions on Refugees Violate Human Rights
New York, N.Y. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Balkan States today that border restrictions based on a refugee’s or migrant’s nationality infringed human rights, wit…
Fund Launch for Kids in Greece with Ancient Hellenic Ideals
New York, N.Y. The recent launch of the J. Luce Foundation 's Hellenic Fund to support children in Greece - whether economically distressed, orphaned, or refugee - was an…
Greek Refugee Centers Overstretched as Arrivals Hit Half Million Mark
New York, N.Y. As the number of refugee and migrant arrivals in Greece hits half a million, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) has…
Group Praises Obama on Refugees, Advocates for LGBT Slots
San Francisco, CA. Neil Grungras, Executive Director of ORAM - Organization for Refuge, Asylum, and Migration, applauded the Obama administration for yesterday’s announce…
Hellenic Fund Launching to Help Kids, including Refugees, in Hellas
New York, N.Y. I am pleased to announce that our Foundation will launch our Hellenic Fund to support children in Greece - whether economically distressed, orphaned, or re…
Kerry: U.S. Committed to Increasing Efforts Against ISIS
Washington, D.C. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday the Islamic State group "will feel even greater pressure" in the coming weeks as the United States, Franc…
MSF Responds to Emergency in Mediterranean
New York, N.Y. Every year, thousands of people fleeing violence, insecurity, and privation at home attempt a treacherous journey via North Africa and across the Mediterra…
Murder of Syrian Citizen Journalists Condemned by UNESCO Chief
New York, N.Y. The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) today condemned the killing of two Syrian citizen journalists,…
No Cuts in Development Aid to Refugee Crisis Urged
New York, N.Y. Reducing development assistance to finance the cost of refugee flows is counter-productive, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today, declaring that “…
Obama, Hollande to Meet in Wake of Paris Attacks re: ISIS
Washington, D.C. Less than two weeks after the deadly attacks in Paris, U.S. President Barack Obama welcomes his French counterpart, Francois Hollande, to the Oval Office…
Refugees are the Responsibility of the World – Peter Sutherland
New York, N.Y. Peter Sutherland is the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration. A strong advocate for the rights of mig…
So Many In Need, it's Hopeless? Quandary of Assisting Youth in Greece
New York, N.Y. The needs of children and young adults in Greece are enormous. The problems there are so insurmountable that the Greek government alone cannot solve them.…
U.N. Agency Urges Jordan to Allow 12,000 Desperate Syrian Refugees Stranded at Border
New York, N.Y. Amid worsening conditions inside Syria, the United Nations refugee agency today expressed grave concern for nearly 12,000 people trying to flee the country…
U.N. Security Council Calls for Eradicating ISIS Safe Havens
New York, N.Y. The United Nations Security Council this evening called on all countries that can do so to take the war on terrorism to Islamic State-controlled territory…
U.N. Urges Greece, Europe to Boost Humanitarian Response
New York, N.Y. The escalating refugee crisis in Greece is continuing, with migrant arrivals accelerating “dramatically,” the United Nations warned today, urging the Greek…
U.N.: Flow of Refugee and Migrant Children into Greece Doubles
New York, N.Y. About a third of the refugees and migrants who have drowned in the Aegean Sea this year were children, while the number of children applying for asylum in…
U.N.: Refugee Sea Arrivals in Greece Approach 400,000
New York, N.Y. The United Nations refugee agency said today that, despite adverse weather conditions, refugee and migrant arrivals in Greece this year are expected to hit…
U.N.: Refugees Must be Dealt with as Human Beings
New York, N.Y. Refugees have to be dealt with as human beings, and the broader migrant community, including economic migrants, cannot be dismissed “with a wave of the han…
U.S. Special Forces Going Into Syria to Combat ISIS 'Very Soon'
Washington, D.C. The special U.S. envoy to the global coalition to counter the Islamic State group (IS/ISIL) said dozens of U.S. special operations forces will be deploye…
Film Shown at U.N. Donor Conference on Collapse of Haiti's Presidential Palace
Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The film "Thirty-Five Long Seconds: Haiti's Deadly Earthquake" was screened recently as part of the recent Donor's Conference at the United Nations…