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Organizations improving conditions inside Syrian refugee camps include the Karam Foundation, UNHCR and the International Medical Corps.

Opened on 28 July 2012 and still home to 80,000 people, Za'atari refugee camp has become a symbol of the long-running Syrian refugee crisis.

UNHCR This news comment is attributable to Matthew Reynolds, UNHCR representative to the United States and the Caribbean Nada, 12, fled Syria with her parents and six siblings and found safety in Jordan’s Za’atari Refugee Camp. © UNHCR/Sebastian Rich While UNHCR is disappointed that the United States has not yet been able to move beyond the historically low admissions target of 15,000 for the current fiscal year, we welcome the decision announced today to broaden geographic categories for its refugee admissions. We are also encouraged by the announcement of a planned increase, to be for...

This news comment is attributable to Matthew Reynolds, UNHCR representative to the United States and the Caribbean 17 April 2021 Nada, 12, fled Syria with her parents and six siblings and found safety in Jordan's Za'atari Refugee Camp.  © UNHCR/Sebastian Rich While UNHCR is disappointed that the United States has not yet been able to move beyond the historically low admissions target of 15,000 for the current fiscal year, we welcome the decision announced today to broaden geographic categories for its refugee admissions. We are also encouraged by the announcement of a planned increase, to ...

Dec 30, 2020 12:29 PM EDT As journalists are restricted from entering the camp, photography students provide a glimpse into what quarantine looks like in the world’s largest Syrian refugee camp. When Wala’ Zain Al Abedeen first heard of the coronavirus, she didn’t think it was dangerous. But as more news came to the Za’atari Refugee Camp, where the 17-year-old student lives with her family, “the more dangerous we understood it to be.” “We all got stressed. There was a lot of anxiety.” Since March 21, Za’atari, the world’s largest Syrian refu...