As displaced Syrians return home, others wait and hope for more aid
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As displaced Syrians return home, others wait and hope for more aid
Sana Khaled, 55, talks to a UNHCR staff member inside her family’s tent in an informal camp in rural Idleb, north-west Syria.
© UNHCR/Hameed Maarouf
UNHCR helps to save lives and build better futures for the millions of people forced to flee their homes.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home.
Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital protection and assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to.
We help to save lives and build better futures for millions forced from home.
123.2 million people worldwide are forcibly displaced.
Most refugees – 73 per cent – are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.