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SYRIAN REFUGEES
IN
THE LEBANESE REPUBLIC
Presented BY:
yang Cindy Xu & NASEEB NUSEIBEH
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What’s happening?
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09/28 Palestinian Syrian Refugees denied Entry
09/29 40,000 Syrians attempted entry of Lebanon, 250 arrested and suspected of being ISIL
09/30 Conflicts between NUSRA and Lebanese Army
10/01 Rashid Derbas lobbies for Camps
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LEBANON-SYRIA
A brief history
first world war:
Sykes-picot agreement
1920-Greater Lebanon
Sunni muslims formed the greater Syria
1946-INDEPENDENCE of Syria and Lebanon
since 1942, Syria refuses to accept /recognize Lebanon as a nation UNTIL
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LEBANON-SYRIA
A brief hisotry
sYRIA OCCUPATION IN LEBANON
1976-2005
lebanese civil war 1975-1990
2005- assassination of rafik harirI
UN RESOLUTION 1559- SYRIA WITHDREW FROM LEBANON
2008- ESTABLISHED DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
2010- bASHAR al-ASSAD visited lebanon WITH SAUDI KING ABDULLAH
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the arab spring
IN TERMS OF
LEBANON-SYRIA RELATIONS
2012-Lebanon announced Dissociation policy towards syria
syria accused lebanon of providing arms to rebels
sYRIAN TROOPS ATTACKED LEBANON’S ARMY POST
LEBANON ARRESTED SYRIA’S NO.1 FORMER INFORMATION MINISTER MICHEL SAMAHA
HEZBOLLAH SUPPORTS BASHAR AL-ASSAD
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AS OF SEPTEMBER 2013
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As of 09/30/2014:
registered Syrian refugees in lebanon :1,150,198
concerned: 1,173,167
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Organizations involved in
RELIEF WORK
Human Rights Council,
UNICEF,
UNHCR,
UN Security Council
wORLD hEALTH oRGANIZATION
Norwegian Refugee Council
Amel Association Council
catholic relief services
UNITED nATIONS population fund
miNISTRY OF social Affairs (Lebanon)
and 28 Charitable Lebanese NGOs like Action Contre La Faim,
(mainly Islamic are involved in
the Refugee relief missions in Lebanon.
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Distribution of Refugees by
Mohazafa (District)
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Distribution of Refugees by
Age and Gender
BY REGION, in the Bekaa, these percentages are 82% and 18%, while in Beirut the percentage of men increases to 46% and that of women and children to 54%
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-Rida syRIAN refugee living in joRDAN
“A barrier is something that prevents you from accessing something–– something you don’t have, something that you need. It can be a physical thing, but it can also be something abstract. It can be fear. For example, in Syria, fear of violence and the conflict. Here it can be fear of being harassed. Fear that my Children will be harassed or bullied on the street. That fear –– fear of being harassed.”