World Refugee Day is an occasion to commemorate the strength and resilience of millions of people who have been forced to flee their homes in search of safety.The numbers of displaced worldwide hit the 50 million mark in 2015, making this a truly unprecedented global crisis, with

Last month I met a Syrian refugee family close to Amman whose daughter had recently taken the long and treacherous journey to Europe. I felt real sadness that a young woman would take the risk of embarking on this journey on her own, using a network of smugglers, because sh

Much has changed in the wider region since the last World Refugee Day commemoration, but unfortunately not for the better in Syria. What we still hoped could be a political solution to the humanitarian crisis, permitting the return of Syrian refugees, has not eventuated. No one