Interactive: Two years on - Syria's refugee crisis

[Scootaloo]

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2013/03/2013314145918144597.html

March 15 marks two years since the beginning of the conflict in Syria.

Last week the UN refugee body UNHCR reported that more than one million people have already fled the violent conflict in Syria.

Since the start of this year, 422,788 Syrians have become refugees. As the civil war has dragged on, the humanitarian crisis has deepened.

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Not a news article per se, but a handy interactive infographic that shows you who these people are, where they are, what's happening with them.

In light of certain poster's jeering / cheering about the "Arab state's" refusing to allow refugees in, let's have a look at the numbers.

Turkey: 185,205 refugees hosted. 17 refugee camps within Turkey.
Lebanon: 345,873 refugees, and three camps.
Iraq: 105,326 refugees and seven camps.
Jordan: 306,356 refugees and two camps.
Egypt: 43,513 refugees registered with UNHCR, estimated over a hundred thousand in total though.
Maghreb nations: 8,280 registered in Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco.
Europe: 33,244 refugees there, with the highest density in Germany and Sweden, with 8,835 and 8,460 respectively.

These are the UNHCR numbers; as with Egypt, the actual number of refugees taking refuge in these nations is probably quite a bit higher.

The Saudis have given $10 million for refugees in Jordan
(link:http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/11/us-syria-crisis-refugees-saudi-idUSBRE90A0HV20130111)

A Kuwaiti donor conference collected more than $1 billion for the refugees.
(http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/thomson-reuters/130130/blank-headline-received-6)

Iran has pledged refugee aid in Jordan as well as Lebanon, though I can't find any material details.
(http://www.france24.com/en/20130127-iran-says-ready-help-syrian-refugees-jordan and https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/lebanonnews/iran_willing_to_help_syrian_refugees_in_lebanon_envoy_says)

The UAE has pledged $300 million, and runs one of the Jordanian camps.
(http://news.yahoo.com/uae-pledges-300-million-help-syrian-refugees-agency-085213359.html and http://gulfnews.com/news/region/syria/uae-to-open-syrian-refugee-camp-in-jordan-1.1073688)

Qatar is hosting 42 refugees of selected families, and I guess that's, uh, better than absolutely nothing. As are shipments of material aid.
(http://dohanews.co/post/39563736321/qatar-sponsoring-42-syrian-refugees-as-guests-of-the and http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2286390&language=en )

Israel has contributed as well, treating seven men in Ziv medical centre, and there is even some talk of allowing them to stay in Israel.
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9876117/Syrian-refugees-will-not-be-allowed-to-cross-Israel-border.html and http://www.timesofisrael.com/druze-campaign-to-keep-wounded-syrian-refugees-in-israel/)

[King_David]

1. This post probably belongs in the Middle East group. nt

[azurnoir]

2. Thyank you we see Syria thrown up here as an example so very often

along with that Arabs never take care of their own sort of stuff, I would reckon that this disproves that BTW did you find anything on what the US is doing for refugees from Syria?

[Scootaloo]

7. The United States...

is mulling adding weapons and more military training to the situation.

I also found this from NPR, though it's nearly a year old:
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/24/157313910/new-syrian-refugees-in-u-s-too-late-for-special-visa

The Obama administration has a special temporary visa extension for Syrians who've fled to the U.S., since it's unsafe for them to go home. But there's a catch. Syrians who've arrived in the last three months, when the violence really started escalating around Damascus, aren't eligible. No one thinks Syrians are going to be deported anytime soon, even if they get caught with expired visas. But without the special status, it's harder to get work or student visas.

I'm going to go on a limb and guess that the utter lack of info points towards the US not really doing anything particularly useful.

[Jefferson23]

3. The Lucky Seven. n/t

[GeoWilliam750]

4. Refugees from Iraq

I seem to recall that during the Iraq war, there were a tremendous number of Christian refugees that fled Iraq to find shelter in Syria. Does anyone know whatever happened to all of these people, and how they have been affected in the current civil war?

[oberliner]

5. Desperate and vulnerable, some Syrian refugees turn to prostitution

ZAATARI, Jordan: Walk among the plastic tents in one corner of this sprawling, dust-swept desert camp packed with Syrian refugees, and a young woman in a white headscarf signals. “Come in, you’ll have a good time,” suggests Nada, 19, who escaped from the southern border town of Deraa into Jordan several months ago. Her father, sporting a salt-and-pepper beard and a traditional red-checkered headscarf, sits outside under the scorching sun, watching silently.

Nada prices her body at $7, negotiable. She says she averages $70 a day.

Several tents away, a clean-shaven, tattooed young Syrian man, who says he was a barber back in the city of Idlib, offers his wife.

“You can have her all day for $70,” he promises. He says he never imagined he would be selling his own wife, but he needs to send money back to his parents and in-laws in Syria, about $200 a month.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Mar-11/209548-desperate-and-vulnerable-some-syrian-refugees-turn-to-prostitution.ashx#ixzz2Nkqs3epI

[GeoWilliam750]

6. That article is so painful to read

As a few fanatically grasp at power, so many suffer and die.