Her Majesty urges Germany to support refugees by investing in Jordan By JT – Oct 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Her Majesty Queen Rania delivers a speech at the Day of German Industry in Berlin on Thursday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — Her Majesty Queen Rania on Thursday […]
Rohingya families get their share of the food aid the Organization of Islamic Cooperation distributed through the group HUMANiTi Malaysia recently. (OIC photo via Arab News) JEDDAH: More than 1,100 Rohingya families displaced from their homes in Myanmar received food aid from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) during […]
VITAL ASSISTANCE: A Syrian refugee receives medications from a pharmacy run by the Saudi National Campaign to Help Syrian Refugees, in Jordan. (SPA) RASHID HASSAN Published — Thursday 18 February 2016 RIYADH: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), also known as the UN Refugee Agency, commended the Kingdom […]
In this Jan. 11, 2016 photo, a convoy of vehicles loaded with food and other supplies organized by The International Committee of the Red Cross, working alongside the Syrian Arab […]
Reuters International swissinfo.ch DEC 22, 2015 – By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – More than 1 million refugees and migrants came to the European Union this year, while almost 3,700 died or went missing in perilous journeys which reaped huge profit for smugglers, the International Organization for Migration said […]
From: Batool Alsaeed, Mafraq, Jordan To: The Country Director, Humanity First, Jordan In the name of Allah My name is Batool Alsaeed and I am from Syria. I came with my family to Jordan because of the war. We are from Homs. […]
Bangkok’s little-known population of Pakistani asylum seekers uses community action to respond to the challenges facing refugees without a camp. In an unremarkable concrete apartment block on the outskirts of Bangkok, over 100 families from Pakistan wait. They are a fraction of the 8,000-strong population of refugees and asylum […]
Written by The Sofia Globe staff on November 22, 2015 A range of new restrictions against the movement of refugees and migrants from Greece through the Western Balkans and further northwards is increasingly untenable, the UN refugee agency, the International Organisation for Migration and the UN children’s fund said […]
SANAA: Huda Al-Niran, a Saudi woman who eloped with her Yemeni suitor last month and crossed illegally into Yemen, heaved a sigh of relief on Sunday when the United Nations […]
by Simon Bradley, swissinfo.ch September 16, 2013 – 11:00 The Swiss government recently eased visa rules to help reunite Syrians from the war-torn state with their relatives in Switzerland. But what difference will this gesture make in practice? swissinfo.ch gauges the temperature among Syrian expats. “It’s a really good thing; […]
September 1, 2013 – 14:19 As the conflict in Syria worsens, Swiss Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga wants Switzerland to take in a limited number of those fleeing the fighting, and to reintroduce the so-called quota system to Swiss refugee policy. The NZZ am Sonntag newspaper quotes “well-informed” sources as saying […]
by Rhiannon Williams JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The Islamic Action Front (IAF) on Wednesday called on the government to take a “decisive” stance against Israeli attempts to change the legal status of Palestinian refugees through UN organisations. In a statement made on Wednesday, the IAF said that Israel is trying […]
Hosting refugees expected to cost Amman up to $800 million in 2013 by Taylor Luck | Feb 03, 2013 AMMAN — Hundreds of Syrians fled to Jordan on Sunday as […]
Syria has called on those of its citizens who have left the country due to the unrest that began nearly two years ago to return home. The Syrian Interior Ministry […]
RIYADH: ARAB NEWS Monday 21 January 2013 Saudi Arabia yesterday announced a contribution of $ 1.88 million toward UNHCR’s humanitarian program in Myanmar providing shelter to Rohingyas in Rakhine state. A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed by Yousef Al-Bassam of the Saudi Fund for Development and Imran […]
by Julia Slater, swissinfo.ch Dec 29, 2012 – 10:44 “Forced exile is the worst situation you can have,” says Caroline Nanzer, Swiss delegate in Lebanon of the disaster relief organisation […]
by Hani Hazaimeh | Dec 16, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Jordan and the UN on Sunday agreed to create a joint operations centre to coordinate the response to the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres said. Guterres added that the centre […]
by Taylor Luck | Oct 14, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Authorities have chosen a site near the city of Zarqa for its second Syrian refugee camp, officials unveiled […]
AMMAN — Jordan is studying a proposal to grant Syrian refugees “ownership” of residential trailers to be introduced in the Zaatari camp, allowing families to take the mobile housing with […]
ISLAMABAD, 24 August 2012 (IRIN) – At 70 years old, Mohammad Issa is already struggling to survive in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, where he sought refuge from war in Afghanistan years […]