Kerry holds Saudi talks ahead of Syria, Libya meetings.

Charity Save the Children urges 'new deal' for child refugees.

European cooperation enables Syrian refugees to take up university studies.

UN urges global response to refugee crisis.

UN refugee chief sends best wishes for Ramadan.

On 11 & 12 May, UNHCR in cooperation with The National Center for Judicial Studies conducted a two days’ workshop in Alexandria for 23 Egyptian judges and prosecutors from different governorates about International Protection of Refugees: Current Protection Gaps and Challenges. The purpose of this workshop is to identify gaps and challenges that face UNHCR and the government to find ways to overcome them in order to improve the assistance offered to refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt.

The UNHCR’s Award for Team Achievements in Gender Integration goes to the dedicated work in increasing the attention to the needs of women, girls, boys and men in the development of refugee programming in Jordan. The Jordan Refugee Inter-Sector Working Group has set up a cross-sectoral network called the Sector Gender Focal Point Network focusing on the promotion of gender equality. They developed a tool to monitor Gender Equality Measures in humanitarian projects within a pilot project.

Emergency vaccination campaign conducted on Jordan berms at Hadalat and Rukban from 16th to 25th of April. Outcome: 13,896 children below 15 years received polio vaccine, 13,053 children aged from 6 months to 15 years, received measles vaccine 6,278 children from 6-59 months, received vitamin A and 5,423 women at reproductive age received TT vaccine.

USAID has launched new five-year, $50 million Health Service Delivery Flagship to expand the capacity of the health system. The goal is to improve access to quality services through expanding health networks; promoting the integration of key reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions; and fostering community ownership to increase health facility accountability

- JICA launches 2 years project for improvement of services at village health Centers (VHCs) in rural host communities. Project activities include training, development of Manual procedure, community health committees and one mobile clinic in Irbid, Mafraq and Balqa