• UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres leaves today on a weeklong mission to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan and Syria aimed at strengthening cooperation between UNHCR and partners in the four countries and assessing our programmes for hundreds of thousands of displaced Iraqis in the region. (unhcr.org)
  • As you know, we just issued a $60 million appeal to fund our work for Iraqis displaced inside their country, for non-Iraqi refugees in Iraq, and for Iraqis and others who have fled to Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey and Iran. (unhcr.org)
  • Lebanon is not considered a final resettlement destination, but the UNHCR faces a huge challenge moving the refugees to permanent home countries. (ipsnews.net)
  • Since Lebanon is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, refugees are afforded little protection with UNHCR-issued identification, and are prey to what Human Rights Watch calls 'the whim of the law enforcement officer at the checkpoint. (ipsnews.net)
  • Erika Feller also met refugees who recently made it to safety in Jordan. (unhcr.org)
  • ZA'ATRI CAMP, Jordan, December 4 (UNHCR) - Top UNHCR protection official Erika Feller has visited refugees in Jordan's Za'atri refugee camp and noted that innocent civilians were the prime victims of the conflict in Syria. (unhcr.org)
  • On her second mission to the region in less than a month, the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection met refugees who had recently made it to safety in Jordan. (unhcr.org)
  • Many of Iraqi Christian refugees are living in Syria , Lebanon , Jordan and Syria under difficult circumstances. (persecution.org)
  • The Agency's mission is to help Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syrian Arab Republic, West Bank and the Gaza Strip to achieve their full potential in human development, pending a just solution to their plight. (who.int)
  • The Syrian conflict, which began in 2011, has resulted in the largest refugee crisis since World War II, with millions of Syrian refugees fleeing to neighboring countries including Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey 1 . (cdc.gov)
  • But Tillerson, Mattis and others say ending all assistance would exacerbate instability in the Mideast, notably in Jordan, a host to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees and a crucial US strategic partner. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Today, there are an estimated 5 million refugees and their descendants, mostly scattered across the region. (timesofisrael.com)
  • There are also 2.8 million Syrian children living as refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt and Turkey. (unicefusa.org)
  • In Syria, there were estimated to be 1.2 million Iraqi refugees. (ufppc.org)
  • Report from Norwegian NGO Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004CE90B/(httpCountrySummaries)/B3642D7A2DAB6488C12572AB004EB6FA?OpenDocument&count=10000)estimates 1.9m Iraqi internal refugees and 2m Iraqi refugees outside of Iraq, thus marking the largest movement of Middle Eastern population since the Israeli expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • If I was Jordan, I would be very concerned about who was crossing the border other than real refugees. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • It is estimated that in total (including those displaced prior to the war) there may be two million Iraqi refugees who have fled to Jordan, Syria, and other neighboring states, and approximately two million Iraqis who have been displaced within Iraq itself. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The Zataari Refugee Camp in Jordan is one of the largest refugee camps in the world, with an estimated population of nearly 80,000 refugees, half of whom are women. (amnestyusa.org)
  • UNHCR estimates that, at the peak of migration in 2009, 2.6 million Iraqis were internally displaced, with another 2 million refugees outside the country, primarily in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. (merip.org)
  • Millions of refugees poured into Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and even Iraq and Egypt as well as several European countries, where the refugee crisis redefined the political landscape. (usip.org)
  • While protection gaps exist for refugees in both contexts, the chasm is considerably wider in Lebanon. (fmreview.org)
  • Refugees in Lebanon are bound by the 1962 Law Regulating the Entry and Stay of Foreigners in Lebanon and their Exit from the Country. (fmreview.org)
  • Due to Lebanon's fears and concerns surrounding the issue of permanent settlement ( t awteen) generated by the Palestinian issue, Lebanon labels refugees as displaced persons and asserts that it is neither a country of asylum, nor a final destination for refugees, let alone a country of resettlement. (fmreview.org)
  • Furthermore, different rules apply to refugees from different contexts, such as Palestinian Refugees from Lebanon (PRL) or from Syria (PRS) in Lebanon, and non-Syrian refugees in Jordan, including Iraqi, Sudanese, Yemeni, PRS and Somalis, thereby creating parallel systems that offer greater protection to Syrian than non-Syrian refugees. (fmreview.org)
  • Lebanon effectively closed its border to Syrian refugees in 2014 and Jordan in 2015. (fmreview.org)
  • However, since that time, the vast number of the estimated 663,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan have obtained lawful residency permits while 80% of the estimated 865,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon are without lawful residency permits. (fmreview.org)
  • Turkey and Jordan took measures at an early stage in order to restrict the inflow of Syrian refugees and, since the beginning of 2014, Lebanon, until then the only neighbouring country to keep its borders open, has also been taking steps to become more and more restrictive. (boell.de)
  • During the time of Israeli attacks on Lebanon in 2006, the regime opened vacant public buildings to refugees. (boell.de)
  • Influx of Syrian refugees into Lebanon has raised country's population by fifth, as hundreds, if not thousands, flood into country daily, joining Palestinians in makeshift camps. (ynetnews.com)
  • On any given day in Lebanon, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of refugees arrive in cars loaded with children and belongings. (ynetnews.com)
  • Officials say an estimated 1.2 million Syrians are now in Lebanon - including some 620,000 registered refugees. (ynetnews.com)
  • With the government providing none of the facilities and land that authorities in Turkey, Jordan and Iraq have allocated for the refugees, many Syrians in Lebanon live in appalling conditions, finding shelter in slums, tents and tin shacks strung with laundry lines and wedged between farm lands outside towns and cities. (ynetnews.com)
  • Lebanese officials say they are aware of the magnitude of the crisis, the health risks involved and the possibility that deepening resentment of refugees among the hosting population could turn into an armed conflict inside Lebanon as the civil war drags on in Syria. (ynetnews.com)
  • Another 500,000 children are thought to be among the million refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt, which are struggling to cope with the constant stream of refugees. (dw.com)
  • Early and forced marriages are a common occurrence amongst the female refugee population - especially for those girls living in refugee camps in Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. (amnestyusa.org)
  • Spontaneous protests have erupted in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, as well as in West Bank cities like Ramallah. (espotting.com)
  • Syria is an independent state in Western Asia and borders Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Israel. (oup.com)
  • As of March 3, 2016, the UN estimates that over 2.7 million Syrians have fled to Turkey alone . (fairobserver.com)
  • as it does to care for the same refugee in neighboring Turkey, Jordan, or Lebanon. (bizpacreview.com)
  • Israel is bounded on the north by Lebanon and on the northeast by Syria. (wikipedia.org)
  • The UNHCR conservatively estimates that 2.2 million people have left Iraq since 2003, the majority to Syria and Jordan. (ipsnews.net)
  • Syria's pre-war population of 22 million people has been reduced to approximately 17 million, with an estimated 5 million having fled the country 2 , 3 , and more than 6.5 million displaced within Syria 4 . (cdc.gov)
  • Overall literacy in Syria is estimated at 86.4% 7 . (cdc.gov)
  • The agency focuses on providing health care, education and social services to Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. (timesofisrael.com)
  • For Jordan and Syria, themselves the bastard progeny of imperial coupling, the problem is very real - and deadly serious. (ufppc.org)
  • When you compare it to neighboring states such as Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt, it is one of the largest forces,' said Aram Nerguizian, a Syria expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. (voanews.com)
  • Jordan has granted temporary national passports to Palestinians, but in Lebanon they are denied access to education and health services, while they are subject to strict political control in Syria. (bbc.co.uk)
  • She has made a documentary named "Haunted" with the support of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, centring on the lives of nine individuals who are either internally displaced in Syria or seeking refuge in Lebanon. (boell.de)
  • For example, the theory that Syria is part of a wider plot by the US to weaken both Iran and its close ally Syria along with its ally Hezbollah in Lebanon. (oup.com)
  • The report, issued on Tuesday to correspond with the second anniversary of the start of the Syrian conflict, estimates there are 2 million children affected by the crisis inside Syria. (dw.com)
  • Flying to Qatar to visit U.S. troops, a relaxed Bush talked for nearly an hour about his meeting Tuesday in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, with Arab leaders and his followup summit Wednesday in Aqaba, Jordan, with Sharon and Abbas. (dailyalert.org)
  • UNHCR and its partners estimate that out of a total population of 26 million, some 1.8 million Iraqis are currently displaced internally, while up to 2 million others have fled to nearby countries and further afield. (unhcr.org)
  • Although neither Jordan nor Lebanon has signed the Refugee Convention, both have signed Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with UNHCR which set out basic points of agreement and cooperation. (fmreview.org)
  • It serves a population of 5 589 000 beneficiaries registered with the Agency in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and the Syrian Arab Republic. (who.int)
  • UNRWA expects to have full implementation in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jordan and Lebanon by the end of 2015. (who.int)
  • Between them, Jordan and the Syrian Arab Republic are hosting more than 1.2 million Iraqis. (unhcr.org)
  • An estimated 640,000 Iraqis became internally displaced over the past year, particularly since the Samarra bombings in February 2006, and up to 50,000 people continue to flee each month. (unhcr.org)
  • The overall estimate for the number of Iraqis who had fled Iraq was put at two million by Guterres. (ufppc.org)
  • This is from the weekly press briefing this week and was available before the 100,000 estimate was published. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Approximately 74% of eligible persons in the occupied Palestinian territory were estimated to use full spectrum UNRWA's health services in 2014. (who.int)
  • Eliminating or sharply reducing the US contribution could hamstring the agency and severely curtail its work, putting great pressure on Jordan and Lebanon as well as the Palestinian Authority. (timesofisrael.com)
  • It's the fear of everything permanent, or semi-permanent, because of the Palestinian experience in Lebanon," said Makram Maleeb, a program manager for a Syrian refugee crisis unit at Lebanon's Ministry for Social Affairs. (ynetnews.com)
  • Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon announced on Sunday that Lebanese authorities will not enter a Palestinian refugee camp where al Qaeda operatives are known to be. (dailyalert.org)
  • The five year cost of resettling one Middle-Eastern refugee here is conservatively estimated at $64,000, while U.N. figures indicate $5,300 is needed to provide for the same person in his native region. (bizpacreview.com)
  • The fate of the estimated four million Palestinians living in refugee communities scattered around the Middle East is highly controversial. (bbc.co.uk)
  • As Israel expanded its territory, an estimated 300,000 Palestinians left the West Bank and Gaza, most of them to settle in Jordan. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Palestinians inhabit an area east of the Mediterranean Sea and south of Lebanon. (everyculture.com)
  • It is estimated that 104,856 Palestinians live in the United States and another 140,000 around the globe. (everyculture.com)
  • Palestinians living in Arab countries - including the 450,000 in Lebanon - are descendants of the hundreds of thousands who fled or were driven from their homes in the war that followed Israel's creation in 1948. (ynetnews.com)
  • In addition, governments in the region estimate there are several hundred thousand more Syrians who have not yet come forward for registration. (unhcr.org)
  • War-ravaged Lebanon, a country with 4.5 million people as per the World Bank , has absorbed nearly 1.1 million Syrians while the unofficial figure is much higher. (fairobserver.com)
  • During the study period, estimated coverage with the first MCV dose (MCV1) increased from 57% in 2000 to 76% in 2017. (cdc.gov)
  • A Demographic and Health Survey implemented nationwide during 2017–2018 estimated MCV1 and MCV2 coverage at 73% and 67%, respectively. (cdc.gov)
  • This geographical area within the historical region of Palestine extends from the Jordan River and Wadi Araba in the east, to the Mediterranean Sea and the Sinai desert in the west, to Lebanon in the north, and to the gulf of Aqaba, or Eilat in the south. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Desert climate zone, which is the largest climate zone of Israel and Palestine, covers the country's southern half as the Negev, while the Judean Desert extends to the Dead Sea region through the West Bank and into the southern Jordan Valley. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Jordan River, Lakes Huleh and Tiberias, and the Dead Sea separate Palestine from Jordan. (everyculture.com)
  • This study aimed to estimate own-price and cross-price elasticities of demand for cigarettes and waterpipe tobacco products in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine. (who.int)
  • The study included 1680 participants in Lebanon (50% female), 1925 in Jordan (44.6% female) and 1679 in Palestine (50% female). (who.int)
  • We found the demand for premium cigarettes to be price elastic (range, −1.0 to −1.2) across all three countries, whereas the demand for discount cigarettes was less elastic than premium cigarettes in Lebanon (−0.6) and Jordan (−0.7) and more elastic in Palestine (−1.2). (who.int)
  • The UN estimates 70,000 people have been killed in the conflict. (dw.com)
  • There were only 600 accepted from Lebanon for resettlement last year,' says agency spokeswoman Laure Chedrawi. (ipsnews.net)
  • Only 2 percent of refugee households in Jordan are estimated to meet their essential food needs, according to UNICEF. (unicefusa.org)
  • These data show country trends and official vaccination estimates for Guadeloupe up to 2022. (who.int)
  • Below are the charts of distances of Lebanon and Jordan from world's some major countries. (globefeed.com)
  • Venezuela ranks number 1 as the world's most miserable country followed by Zimbabwe 2nd, Sudan 3rd, Lebanon 4th and Suriname 5th among 156 countries ranked this year. (riazhaq.com)
  • New World Bank research estimates that by 2030, two-thirds of the world's extremely poor people will live in fragile and conflict-affected situations . (worldbank.org)
  • In Syrian refugee communities in Jordan, child marriage has dramatically risen over recent years , with the number of registered marriages involving a girl under the age of 18 rising from 12% in 2011 to just under 32% in the first quarter of 2014. (amnestyusa.org)
  • Before, she was very proud of her body but now she is overweight - she eats to protect herself and not to attract people,' says therapist Sana Hamzeh about her 27-year-old Iraqi patient, who recently escaped to Lebanon as a refugee. (ipsnews.net)
  • An estimated 14.6 million people - including 6.5 million Syrian children - are in need of humanitarian assistance, a peak number that reflects that added burdens of the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing turbulence in the global economy and the impacts of sanctions. (unicefusa.org)
  • Before the civil war (March 2011 onwards), the population was estimated to be around 23 million, but millions of people have been displaced by the crisis. (oup.com)
  • An estimated 4.3 million people have been affected by Typhoon Haiyan, with hundreds already confirmed dead. (care.org)
  • With over 6.6 million people , Jordan has absorbed a comparatively meager 636,000 people as of March 16. (fairobserver.com)
  • When Alexander died in Babylon in 323 BCE at the age of 32, his empire covered two million square miles and included an estimated 50 million people of many different languages, religions, and cultures. (coinweek.com)
  • Lebanon is a compact country that is 217 km long and 56 km wide, located along the Eastern Mediterranean coast. (nature.com)
  • Historically, Mount Lebanon has been the most important constituent driving social and cultural development of the country. (nature.com)
  • Another country which has been mentioned in some reports is North Korea'' added Wezeman, though he said it is hard to estimate the volume and number of weapons provided by Pyongyang. (voanews.com)
  • Asbat al-Ansar (League of Partisans) was tied to a foiled assassination plot against the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon in January and successful attacks against U.S. business interests, but appears to have fallen off the radar screen of the U.S. government, even though it was among the first eleven international terror groups listed in President Bush's executive order of September 23, 2001. (dailyalert.org)
  • Geographically, Mount Lebanon refers to the coastal mountain ridge that runs north to south and makes up about 30% of Lebanon's territory. (nature.com)
  • Only parts of the narrow coastal plain, the Jordan Valley, and the Galilee region in the north receive adequate rainfall. (everyculture.com)
  • Those demonstrations come in response to the hospital bombing, estimated to be the single deadliest attack since the Israeli-Hamas war began on October 7. (espotting.com)
  • While evolving primarily within Lebanon, these communities show a level of local isolation as demonstrated previously from their Y-haplogroup distributions. (nature.com)
  • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - A multinational force is helping Cyprus fight stubborn wildfires in the summer heat, with Lebanon joining Greece and Jordan in sending aircraft to fight a blaze that has scorched miles of mountainous terrain, officials said Monday. (wpri.com)
  • This page displays distance with Distance Map between countries Lebanon and Jordan. (globefeed.com)
  • According to the World Bank's modeled ILO estimates, there are only 17 countries worse than India on LPR. (riazhaq.com)
  • Many of the twentieth century archeologists and geographers who investigated the question of the inhabitants of the mountains of Lebanon and the nature of its human occupation also concluded that it was an unpopulated region during antiquity that was only visited by loggers and hunters [ 2 , 6 ]. (nature.com)
  • Active archeological research is currently under way investigating the question of the occupation of mountainous and rural areas of Lebanon, in an attempt to better understand the history of the region and to address what appears to be a contradiction in historic reports and other archeological remains showing evidence of active and persistent trade. (nature.com)
  • An estimated 500,000 to 600,000 Syrian refugee children in the Middle East and North Africa currently have no access to formal education 10 . (cdc.gov)
  • That August, he moved his wife and children to Jordan. (nybooks.com)
  • According to the World Bank, the modeled ILO estimate for the world in 2020 was 58.6 per cent. (riazhaq.com)
  • The persecution has also forced half of an estimated 1.2 million Iraqi Christians to leave their homes. (persecution.org)
  • Currently, there are 18 different religious communities living in Lebanon. (nature.com)
  • In order to trace the origins and migratory patterns that may have led to the genetic isolation and autosomal clustering in some of these communities we analyzed Y-chromosome STR and SNP sample data from 6327 individuals, in addition to whole genome autosomal sample data from 609 individuals, from Mount Lebanon and other surrounding communities. (nature.com)
  • Cyprus Foreign Ministry spokesman Theodoros Gotsis told The Associated Press that neighboring Lebanon is expected to send a pair of choppers as the wildfire continues to reignite on several fronts. (wpri.com)
  • Apart from the name Amurru which, in the first millennium BCE, was used to designate a geographical area in the north of hinterland modern-day Lebanon, and its inhabitants (Amorites), there is no other reference to the inhabitants of the Lebanese mountains in the Iron Age [ 3 ]. (nature.com)
  • Also the estimated airplane flight time is displayed. (globefeed.com)
  • Yet legal aid actors, both in Lebanon and Jordan, spend an inordinate amount of time advocating for the right to legal stay. (fmreview.org)
  • Youth literacy is estimated at 95.9 percent 2 . (cdc.gov)
  • In consequence I would at once inform my government that in Chamoun 's estimate Nasser 's suggested approach was not acceptable. (state.gov)
  • Yet, many of the early archeologists and researchers who undertook archeological and historical studies on Mount Lebanon believed that it was either not occupied, or very sparsely populated up until the Arab-Muslim conquest in the 7th century CE [ 2 ]. (nature.com)