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Syria refugee numbers cross 1.5 million as funding gaps remain
17 May 2013 -
Paris museum organizes toy collection for Syrian refugee children
25 Apr 2013 Quai Branly Museum collects toys from French students, packs them into 60 boxes and sends them to Syrian children in Turkey with the help of UNHCR and others. -
UNHCR welcomes Turkey's new law on asylum
12 Apr 2013 -
UNHCR renews appeal for safe passage of humanitarian convoys in Syria
26 Mar 2013 -
High Commissioner for Refugees in Syria region, refugee numbers revised upwards in Turkey
12 Mar 2013 -
UNHCR welcomes Turkey's registration of Syrians in urban areas
11 Mar 2013 Some 40,000 refugees in urban areas have been registered to date under the new policy with a further 30,000 waiting for appointments to register. -
Number of Syrian refugees reaches 1 million mark
6 Mar 2013 As grim milestone reached, UNHCR chief Guterres warns that Syria is spiralling towards total disaster and humanitarian response capacity is dangerously stretched. -
UNHCR welcomes US$1.5 billion pledged in Kuwait for Syria's forcibly displaced
30 Jan 2013 UNHCR chief António Guterres praises donor countries for pledging more than US$1.5 billion to help Syrian refugees and those displaced within the embattled country. -
UNHCR urgently needs funds as it scales up Syria refugee operations
22 Jan 2013 THE UN refugee agency works hard to keep pace with the unrelenting numbers of Syrian refugees crossing into neighbouring countries each day.