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The team in Aleppo determine needs and response
Lausanne, 06 February 2023. Emergency relief and recovery organisation Medair is in Aleppo, Syria assessing humanitarian needs after a number of buildings collapsed in the city following a devastating earthquake in neighbouring Türkiye on 6 February 2023. ‘We are extremely worried for the families in Syria that have been affected by this earthquake,’ says Raija-Liisa Schmidt-Teigen, Country Director for Medair’s Syria programme. ‘People have already lived through more than a decade of the Syria crisis. Now, they’re losing their homes in the middle of a cold and rainy winter. This couldn’t have happened at a worse time.’ The magnitude 7.8…
61 NGOs warn of worsening crisis in Myanmar, call forrefugees’ engagement on safe, voluntary returns
21 August 2019
Cox’s Bazar - Bangladesh
42 NGOs warn that return of refugees to Myanmar now would be dangerous and premature
9 November 2018
Cox’s Bazar - Bangladesh