A desperate situation that millions of Syrian refugees. Here, images taken on January 7 in the camp of Deir Zanoun, in eastern Lebanon. Under the snow in tents, the poor people to whom aid agencies are struggling to bring help.
An international conference with 54 countries in attendance was held in Budapest, in preparation for the Global Humanitarian Summit, an initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, to be held in Istanbul in May 2016. Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs of the UN spoke about Syria:
"It's a desperate situation, it is important that violations of international humanitarian law we attend are treated with greater responsibility. We see a situation where medical supplies are removed from our humanitarian convoys, it is an absolute scandal, people desperately need medical care across the country. "
Aid targeted in Syria, according heroes Elhadj As Sy, Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent, which calls on political leaders to their responsibilities.
"The origin of all this crisis, this is not a humanitarian catastrophe, it is political. We are here as humanitarians, responding to the consequences of crises of various kinds, and we call for political solutions that address these challenges leaders to reduce these crises. "
According to the High Commissioner for Refugees of the United Nations, more than three million Syrians have fled the civil war in April 2011 to neighboring countries. They are overwhelmed and have to deal with housing needs and daily lives of thousands of people.
Nearly four million Syrians are officially enregistés as refugees to February 3, 2015. More than 2 million are divided between Lebanon (where they represent a quarter of the population), Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. In Turkey they are more than one million six hundred thousand, according to the government. The rest took refuge in the north of Africa.
Of people, including many children, who lost everything for a long time. According to the UN, a refugee puts 17 years on average to rebuild
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