As part of the partnership with the LEGO Foundation, UNHCR supported the Lebanese Ministry of Education (MEHE) to introduce playful learning activities for children in public kindergartens through the training of counsellors from the Department of Orientation and Counselling.

More than 4 million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries. But as relief organizations cut back on aid, many are moving on. A lucky few are resettled, while others take a more dangerous route. Naomi Conrad reports. Ägypten Kairo syrische Flüchtlinge Behind the luxury gated villas and oversiz...

The first Syrian refugees to be resettled in the UK since the government announced it was expanding its protection scheme have arrived. The government has not disclosed how many were in the group nor clarified whether they were already due to arrive before the scheme was expanded. The prime mini...

Tous ne sont pas ingénieurs ou opposants au régime de Bachar Al-Assad. Encore moins les deux à la fois. Les Syriens réfugiés en France sont à l’étroit dans le portrait-robot qu’on pourrait dresser d’eux, même s’il contient sa part de vérité. « Le premier point commun, à mes yeux, entre les quelques ...

Ils seront au cœur de la négociation du nouveau conseil extraordinaire des ministres de l’intérieur, convoqué pour le mardi 22 septembre, à Bruxelles : une mise en place rapide et efficace des « hot spots » aux frontières de l’Union européenne permettra peut-être de désamorcer le conflit entre les V...

FOR too long Europe has closed its eyes to Syria’s foul and bloody civil war, and tried to keep the suffering multitudes out. Suddenly the continent’s gates have been pushed open by two political forces. One is moral conscience, belatedly wakened by the image of a drowned Syrian child on a Turkish b...

Briefing Notes, 2 October 2015 This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 2 October 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Although windy autumn weather affected sea crossings from Turkey over ...

EU leaders have pleaded with Turkey’s authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to join forces behind a radical plan aimed at stemming the flow of hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants to Europe. The Europeans are offering eventually to take half a million Syrians from new refugee a...

CAIRO (AP) — In an unfinished building on the outskirts of Cairo that echoes with the clatter of construction, a Syrian instructor walks a class of young refugees through a poetry lesson in the dialect of their war-torn country, hoping to instill knowledge and a sense of community far from home. "W...

The majority of registered Syrian refugees in Egypt are now classed as severely vulnerable by the United Nations' refugee agency, according to donor briefing documents obtained exclusively by Middle East Eye. The findings, which document need up until September 2015, are part of a recent study la...