Advocacy

• The number of asylum seekers attempting the perilous journey across the Mediterranean has more than doubled in 2022 for the second year in a row.
• New briefing from Save the Children highlights diminishing hope among Syrian refugees in Lebanon as poverty, discrimination persist.
• Refugees in Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan highlighted their desires to a relocate to a third country, yet places for refugees remain critically low.

BEIRUT, 8 August 2022 – Syrian refugees living in Lebanon are facing an increase of violence, harassment and discrimination as tensions rise over a bread shortage caused by the war in Ukraine, currency devaluation and damage at Beirut’s main grain silos, Save the Children said.

يجب إعادة شمل الأطفال الذين أصيبوا بإنفجار بيروت مع عائلاتهم – جمعية إنقاذ الطفل

Children hit by Beirut blast must be reunited with relatives – Save the Children