International charity Action Against Hunger has denounced the deterioration of living conditions for Syrian refugees in Lebanon following a recent order to dismantle houses and other buildings at a number of camps.
Lebanon's labor ministry is clamping down on businesses employing foreigners without valid work permits, after ignoring guidelines governing the employment of the country's 1.5 million-strong Syrian diaspora virtually for years.
Turkish authorities say they have intercepted about 15,000 migrants without valid documents in Istanbul in the past 20 days, among them 2,630 Syrian nationals.
Turkish human rights groups have staged a protest on Saturday in Istanbul in solidarity with Syrian refugees. The demo followed a government announcement earlier last week saying that Syrians would be relocated out of the city if they are not officially registered.
The family of Aylan Kurdi have denounced a Turkish movie based on his life and death at sea. Images of the drowned toddler's body sent shockwaves around the world when he died.
The Turkish government has said that since 2016 a reported 329,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country from Turkey after cross-border military operations carried out by Ankara.
The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has confirmed that it has put decisions regarding asylum for many Syrians “on hold.” According to reports by a German media group, the postponement is due to a reassessment of the security situation in Syria.
The UN refugee agency's Vincent Cochetel has said that the distribution of refugees and asylum seekers in Tunisia needs to be improved - in order to prevent a "concentration of traumatized people in the same space."
A Syrian refugee, who has been in trouble with German police multiple times, was sent back to Syria at the end of March. His return to Damascus has been fervently discussed by the Syrian community who see it as a repatriation despite a block on sending anyone back to Syria. The German authorities have denied it was a forced return.
Three years after the EU-Turkey declaration, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is calling on European countries to take their share of responsibility for handling refugees. Paying off Turkey and Greece, who have been excessively hit by the crisis, cannot be the solution, the NRC said.
March 15, 2019 marked the beginning of the ninth year of the war in Syria. UNICEF is commemorating the date by recalling that 8 million children have been affected by the war, five million of whom need humanitarian assistance within Syria's borders, and 2.5 of whom are refugees in neighboring countries.
A bakery in eastern Germany is helping the integration of a Syrian refugee. Through an apprenticeship program, Mohamad Hamza Alemam is forging a future as a baker. And growing new roots in his host country.