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“Growing Up Without an Education”

Summary We left our country and our homes and now they don’t even have an education or a future. —Jawaher, North Lebanon, December 1, 2015 My children should learn to write their names. It…
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EU: Don’t Send Syrians Back to Turkey

Lack of Jobs, School, Health Care Spurs Poverty, Exploitation

(Brussels) – Delays in registration and limited implementation of temporary protection policies in Turkey mean that many Syrian refugees are left without effective protection or access to jobs and services that they desperately need, Human Rights Watch…
A migrant child stands in a tent on the side of a highway near Edirne, Turkey where hundreds of mostly Syrian migrants have had to wait as Turkish police prevent their bid to cross the border with Greece.
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Lebanon: Syrian Refugees Forced to Live in the Shadows

Lebanese authorities are imposing regulations that effectively bar many Syrian refugees from renewing their residency permits, heightening risks of exploitation and abuse among people who fled persecution and war. Residency regulations adopted in January…
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Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 13 June

Iran, immigration, Syria, Ghana, Yemen, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Greece, EU & Bahrain...

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Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 12 June

Child labor, Syria, US surveillance, Greece, Turkey...

Child labor in focus today. Aid for Syria not getting through. The abusive approach of the Greek police. Urgent reform needed for US surveillance methods. And how last night in Turkey, the situation took a turn for the…