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Naharnet
March 22, 2018
"If I was a citizen, I would not accept to stay in Adra for five minutes, with this tragic situation," Ali al-Zaatari said. Zaatari was also critical of the humanitarian situation for some 100,000 people who have fled a Turkey-led advance on the Kurdish region of Afrin in northern Syria. Pro-Ankara forces swept into itsÃâà...
Rudaw
March 22, 2018
Zaatari was also critical of the humanitarian situation for some 100,000 people who have fled a Turkey-led advance on the Kurdish region of Afrin in northern ... "We cannot access Afrin as it's an occupied region," Zaatari said, adding that attempts were being made daily to try to reach the region's civilians.
The New Arab
March 22, 2018
Dozens of people - including women and children - queued outside limited bathroom facilities. "People may have escaped fighting, fear and insecurity but they find themselves in a place without anywhere to wash themselves. This should not be," Zaatari added. Since the escalation of the military offensiveÃâà...
FRANCE 24
March 22, 2018
"If I was a citizen, I would not accept to stay in Adra for five minutes, with this tragic situation," Ali al-Zaatari said. Zaatari was also critical of the humanitarian situation for some 100,000 people who have fled a Turkey-led advance on the Kurdish region of Afrin in northern Syria. Pro-Ankara forces swept into itsÃâà...
W Magazine
March 20, 2018
Daughters Shiloh and Zahara attended the 2018 National Board of Review Awards Gala in January and met with Syrian refugees at the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan later that month. And back in September, the entire Jolie-Pitt brood showed up to support the New York City premiere of First They KilledÃâà...
New Straits Times Online
March 20, 2018
The newer Zaatari camp in Jordan catering for displaced Syrians is on its way to becoming a town. The question is whether Bangla-desh will allow this to happen. It is struggling to host the influx of Rohingya and cannot afford it. Its struggle to provide for its own booming population is compounded byÃâà...
ZAWYA
March 20, 2018
Zaatari also serves as a chair of the World Health Organization's Tobacco Regulation Study Group. Zaatari cited flavored products such as e-cigarettes as particularly dangerous to Lebanese youth, who may get hooked on smoking through vaping. The biggest barrier to curbing tobacco use in general isÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 20, 2018
Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan - The war in Syria is now in its eighth year and Syrians across the world have become accustomed to a different life. Using animations to illustrate their dreams, Dreaming in Zaatari: Stories After Syria, an immersive virtual-reality film, takes viewers into the lives of three SyrianÃâà...
Global News Network
March 18, 2018
On March 16, 2017, UN Resident Coordinator in Syria Ali al-Zaatari during his speech at a closed meeting on the humanitarian situation on Syria in Geneva noted the Russian Reconciliation Center leading role in the evacuation of civilians from Eastern Ghouta. He also emphasized the full assistance of theÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
March 17, 2018
My colleague recently shared her experience visiting the agency's facilities in Jordan's sprawling Zaatari refugee camp, where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees live. Since 2012, 8,500 babies have been born there with the Population Fund's help, and no mothers have died from childbirth-related causesÃâà...
The Guardian
March 17, 2018
“It was a very painful visit, people are in extreme and dire need for all basic requirements that a human being would want to have, starting with a bar of soap, food, or even a decent burial,” Ali al-Zaatari, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Syria, told the Guardian. Zaatari said UN personnel had providedÃâà...
eco-business.com
March 16, 2018
zaatari camp education Children listen to their teacher at the Zaatari Refugee Camp, located near Mafraq, Jordan. The fourth United Nations Sustainable Development Goal aims, by 2030, to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all". Image: UnitedÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 16, 2018
Save the Children ambassador Myleene Klass visits a class of children at Little Hands - Save the Children's early learning centre in Zaatari Refugee Camp - where children aged 3-4 are supported via early childhood care and development programmes to ensure they are prepared for school and have theÃâà...
CNN
March 15, 2018
Zaatari Refugee Camp in northern Jordan is home to almost 80,000 Syrian refugees, making it the fourth-largest city in the country. Since first opening in 2012, the small collection of tents has swelled to a semi-permanent settlement with its own schools, hospitals and even a collection of shops dubbed theÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 15, 2018
Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., tours a U.S.-funded supermarket in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan on May 21, 2017. (Raad Adayleh/AFP/Getty Images). U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is proposing a sweeping reassessment of U.S. foreign assistance with a view toÃâà...
Examiner Enterprise
March 15, 2018
“As far as I'm concerned we're back with the conditions of the Cold War, and the U.N. finds it more and more difficult to act.” Even when aid is delivered, the U.N. as well as other aid groups are criticized for favoring one side over another, said Ali Zaatari, the U.N.'s humanitarian coordinator for the country.
CNN
March 15, 2018
Zaatari Refugee Camp in northern Jordan is home to almost 80,000 Syrian refugees, making it the fourth-largest city in the country. Since first opening in 2012, the small collection of tents has swelled to a semi-permanent settlement with its own schools, hospitals and even a collection of shops dubbed theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 15, 2018
Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan - Mahmoud fled Syria when he was nine, Najat when she was 11. Like many other Syrian teenagers, both of them grew up far away from home. "7 Stories for 7 Years" is an immersive 360 documentary by Contrast VR - Al Jazeera's immersive media studio - and World Vision.
ANSAmed
March 14, 2018
ROME - A team of heart surgeons from Rome's pediatric hospital Bambino Gesu have just come back to Italy but will soon be leaving again for the Jordanian capital to perform heart surgery on a total of 20 Syrian children in the Al-Zaatari refugee camp. The team is led by the head of the Pediatric heartÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 12, 2018
In January, no refugees were relocated to the unfenced area of Azraq Camp, while partners report the relocation of several hundreds of refugees from Zaatari and host communities to V-5. UNHCR indicated that people being relocated to V5 fall into different categories, mostly linked to alleged criminalÃâà...
Jordan Times
March 7, 2018
ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP — Over 1,000 Syrian refugee children in the camps of Zaatari and Azraq on Tuesday received hand painted portraits as part of the Memory Project — a charitable non-profit organisation that invites art teachers and their students around the world to create and donate portraits toÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 22, 2018
UNHCR supports the Syrian Refugee Affairs Directorate (SRAD) - the Government agency in charge of the management and coordination of Zaatari and Azraq camps - to ensure that assistance is provided in the most effective and efficient way possible in accordance with international humanitarianÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 22, 2018
On 28 January, UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie visited Zaatari refugee camp to meet with Syrian refugees. She called on world leaders to end the conflict, impressing upon the UN Security Council members to visit the refugee camps and meet with urban refugees in Jordan to observe first-hand theirÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 20, 2018
Thus, despite the fact that CMR was calculated based on the median population in Zaatari in 2017 which was 80,079, it should be kept in mind that there may have been some fluctuations through the year due to people moving in and out of the camp as well as refugees leaving the camp. Furthermore, theÃâà...
The Independent
February 17, 2018
The school made from sandbags is located in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, close to the Syrian border – despite its initially temporary nature the camp has grown into a permanent settlement for many fleeing conflict. Children living in camps such as Zaatari have little access to social security,Ãâà...
The Pilot
February 15, 2018
ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan (CNS) -- As Syria's war soon enters its eighth year, many decry the recent dangerous escalation in the conflict, whether in ... Speaking from the sprawling Zaatari Refugee Camp housing 80,000 Syrians near Jordan's border with Syria, the head of the U.N. refugee agencyÃâà...
ABC Online
July 27, 2017
About 80,000 Syrians live here, and as far as refugee camps go, aid groups say Zaatari is the gold standard. There's a bustling main market that smells strongly like the flat bread baking in wood ovens inside shops. Gold traders jostle for business with bridal wear shops and fresh fruit and vegetables areÃâà...
