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Wrestling champion Amir Awad from Idlib in Syria fled the conflict and set up a sports centre in Egypt where he hopes to train future champions.
UNHCR

Syrian refugee offers sporting chance to others in exile

28 December 2017
General News

A refugee story with a happy ending, with news that a Syrian former champion wrestler has opened a sports centre in Egypt offering hope to others displaced from the war-torn country.

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Inter-agency convoy to Duma, east Ghouta in the buffer-zone crossing the conflict line.
OCHA/Ghalia Seifo (file)

Security Council renews Syrian cross-border relief convoys amid ongoing challenges for aid workers

19 December 2017
The Security Council today renewed the authorization for United Nations relief agencies and their partners to use routes across conflict lines and border crossings to deliver lifesaving assistance to millions in north-west and southern Syria through Turkey and Jordan.
The Security Council Adopts Resolution on Humanitarian Cross-border Aid to Syria.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

Security Council resolution extends life-saving aid to Syrians

19 December 2017
General News

Syria topped the agenda in the Security Council on Tuesday, where ambassadors heard briefings from the UN officials overseeing the political and humanitarian response to the

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Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria briefs the press on the last day of the 8th round of the Intra-Syrian talks, Geneva. 14 December 2017. UN Geneva/Violaine Martin

“Golden opportunity” to progress Syria peace talks missed: UN envoy

14 December 2017
General News

A “golden opportunity” has been missed to decide the future of Syria at the end of the latest round of UN-led talks in Geneva, veteran negotiator Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday.

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Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria, briefs the press during the intra-Syrian talks, Geneva.
UN Photo/Violaine Martin (file)

'Golden opportunity' missed for progress on intra-Syrian talks, says UN envoy

14 December 2017
A “golden opportunity” has been missed to decide the future of Syria at the end of the latest round of United Nations-supported talks in Geneva, UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday.
Syrian refugees at an informal settlement in Lebanon carry aid items, including wood to strengthen their shelters for winter.
UNHCR/I. Prickett

UN and partners launch $4.4 billion regional appeal for more than five million Syrian refugees

12 December 2017
A more than $4 billion appeal has been launched to support what one senior United Nations official called on Tuesday “a lost generation” of Syrian refugees caught up in the ongoing conflict.
Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria briefs the press during Intra-Syrian talks, Geneva.
Violaine Martin

Children not a ‘bargaining chip’ in tug of war between Syrian parties – UN advisor

7 December 2017
The United Nations advisor for Syria said Thursday that obstacles stopping humanitarians from delivering aid and carrying out medical evacuations in besieged parts of the war-ravaged country are not being lifted, and “children are dying” as a result.
An emotional UN Special Advisor Jan Egeland (left) embraces UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura amid ongoing aid access problems to Eastern Ghouta., where more than 400,000 people need humanitarian help.
UN Photo/Violaine Martin

UN senior aid adviser renews call for Syria aid access

7 December 2017
Interviews

The lack of aid deliveries to Syria’s most desperate communities and a continuing veto on the evacuation of hundreds of extremely sick civilians feel like a personal “failure”, a senior humanitarian adviser to the UN said on Thursday.

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Sexual violence and torture of men and boys in Syria by multiple parties to the conflict appears to be far more widespread than previously thought.
UNHCR/Dominic Nahr

UN study uncovers horrors of sexual violence against Syrian refugee boys and men

6 December 2017
A study carried out by the United Nations refugee agency has revealed disturbing details about a little-known side to the Syrian conflict: sexual violence against boys and men.
Sexual violence and torture of men and boys in Syria by multiple parties to the conflict appears to be far more widespread than previously thought. © UNHCR/Dominic Nahr

Horrors of sexual violence against Syrian boys and men revealed

6 December 2017
Interviews

Disturbing details have emerged of a little-known side to the Syrian conflict: sexual violence against boys and men.

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