Natalia Nahra Associate Protection Officer Duty Station: Tel Aviv, Israel I’m addressing the challenge of how to improve access to information relevant to asylum-seekers in Israel. There are about 43,000 African asylum-seekers in Israel, a majority of which are from...
Randa Qoudsi Senior Community Services Assistant Duty Station: Damascus, Syria I am addressing the challenge of how might we enhance the partners coordination in Syria. One of the key challenges our operation faces is the lack of coordination among UNHCR protection...
“Never assume you know the communications eco-system – never think you know how people share information and which sources they trust better than community members themselves”. These were the words I found myself repeating in South Sudan, whilst supporting the recent...
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), one of the most terrible consequences of conflict, is also one that often goes underreported – and therefore unaddressed – because of cultural taboos that silence its victims. Now, UNHCR is fighting the issue upfront with a...
Lessons learned from the Refugee Education Workshop at Stanford University. More than half of the 4.8 million refugees who have poured out of Syria are children. The world sees their faces as they cling to parents, bob in overburdened boats, cry in the arms of...
