#syriens

More refugees in Lebanon test positive for COVID-19 - Al monitor

More than a dozen refugees in eastern Lebanon have tested positive for the coronavirus. The news follows a handful of virus cases last month in the impoverished community.

There were 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among Syrian refugees in Majdal Anjar near the Syrian border as of yesterday, a UN spokeswoman told Al-Monitor. The individuals live in the same building. There was only one confirmed COVID-19 case among Syrian refugees before the ones in Majdal Anjar, and this person living in northern Lebanon has since recovered, the spokeswoman said.

#Covid-19#Liban#migrant#migration#camps#syriens#palestiniens#pauvreté#santé

▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/05/lebanon-refugees-syrian-covid-19-test-positive.html

UK extends NHS bereavement scheme after emotional plea from Syrian refugee - Middle East Eye

The British government has reversed a decision to exclude low-wage foreign workers from a bereavement scheme after a Syrian refugee working at a London hospital begged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to reconsider.

Hassan Akkad, a 32-year old refugee who won BAFTA and International Emmy awards for documenting his journey from Turkey into Europe, released an emotional video on Wednesday after learning that the families of migrant NHS cleaners, porters and social care workers wouldn’t qualify for indefinite leave to remain in the UK if they were to die fighting Covid-19

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#UK#Syriens#Travailleur_syriens#Politique#diaspora#2eme_vague#santé
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/coronavirus-uk-extends-bereavement-scheme-include-low-paid-nhs-worker

As coronavirus sweeps Europe, unaccompanied refugee children are becoming more vulnerable - Euronews

Today, Syrian refugee children and parents crowd into the same Greek camps I hear about in more personal accounts shared by refugee children and mothers seeking asylum near my expat home in Zürich, Switzerland. There, over 1,600 unaccompanied minors (children) wait for a passage to safety.

#Covid-19#Grèce#Turquie#Syriens#rapatriement#Enfant#UE#DAESH#migrant#migration

▻https://www.euronews.com/2020/05/04/as-coronavirus-sweeps-europe-unaccompanied-refugee-children-becoming-more-

Zaatari Refugee Camp - Factsheet, April 2020 - UNHCR Syria report

Due to the impact of COVID-19, all schools are closed, and classes are now held throughdistancelearning and online. Tertiary education students take their classes online, whereas primary and secondary have their classes broadcasted on the television

Refugees in Zaatari areintegrated within the national plan for COVID-19; the Ministry of Health (MoH) hasprepared dedicatedhealth facilities to deal with any developments related to the virus. COVID19 coordination plan was established in collaboration with MoH and translated into Arabic and shared with all the concerned parties, includingthe Rapid Response Teamand camp health facilities

#Covid-19#Syriens#camp#UN#Jordanie#Zaatari_camp#migration#quarantaine

▻https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/76487.pdf
▻https://reliefweb.int/report/jordan/zaatari-refugee-camp-factsheet-april-2020

In Jerash refugee camp, lockdown means ‘living without eating’ - +972 Mag

The COVID-19 pandemic is compounding the already precarious situation that refugees around the world are in. Palestinian refugees in Jordan’s Jerash camp are especially vulnerable, given the existing public health challenges and severe poverty.

There are more than two million registered Palestinian refugees living in Jordan. Jerash camp is home to an estimated 30,000 Palestinians whose elders fled Gaza in 1967, after Israel occupied the territory. Unlike most Palestinian refugees in the Hashemite Kingdom, they never received Jordanian citizenship, which impacts their access to work prospects, educational opportunities, and healthcare, among other rights enjoyed by Palestinian-Jordanians.

Before the Jordanian government instituted a lockdown to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, the camp, known locally as Gaza Camp, was deemed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the U.N. body that delivers vital aid to some 5.3 million Palestinian refugees across the Arab world, as the poorest of the 10 official Palestinian refugee camps in the country.

#Covid-19#Liban#UNHCR#migrant#migration#camps#syriens#palestiniens#pauvreté#santé

▻https://www.972mag.com/jerash-camp-palestinian-refugees-coronavirus

‘The displacement virus is much stronger than the coronavirus’: Reflections from Burj el-Barajneh and Baqa’a Camps in Lebanon and Jordan -refugeehosts.org

What roles do communal solidarity and sociality play in spaces such as the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic? This question is examined by Samar Maqusi, who draws on conversations with camp residents Abu Mohammad and Abu Ahmad, to reflect on the ‘socially conscious’ creativity developing and responding to the pandemic. Maqusi argues that UNRWA has failed to understand the needs of the camps and their residents and, in the face of inadequate support from the Lebanese state, she describes how camp residents are ensuring that food and other provisions are distributed through a ‘body of trust’, providing examples of social solidarity. Maqusi goes on to argue that, during a time when deep rooted inequalities are further revealed and remain unaddressed throughout the pandemic, what is needed is a commitment to develop a collective imagination based on solidarity, for a better future.

#Covid19#Liban#UNHCR#migrant#migration#camps#syriens#palestiniens

▻https://refugeehosts.org/2020/05/12/the-displacement-virus-is-much-stronger-than-the-coronavirus-reflectio

Coronavirus : en Mauritanie, le calvaire des exilés et réfugiés
►http://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20200419-coronavirus-mauritanie-calvaire-exil%C3%A9s-refugi%C3%A9s-hcr
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Mauritanie#exilé#refugie#syriens

Greece: Rights watchdogs report spike in violent push-backs on border with Turkey - InfoMigrants

A Balkans-based network of human rights organizations says that the number of migrants pushed back from Greece into Turkey has spiked in recent weeks. The migrants allegedly reported beatings and violent collective expulsions from inland detention spaces to Turkey on boats across the Evros River.

#Covid19#Turquie#Gréce#frontière#migrant#migration#réfugié#violences#syriens

►https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/24620/greece-rights-watchdogs-report-spike-in-violent-push-backs-on-border-w

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Ciblés par les #rafles, les #Syriens d’#Istanbul vivent dans la peur des #expulsions

Depuis la victoire de l’opposition sociale-démocrate à Istanbul, lors des municipales du 23 juin, la police turque multiplie les rafles contre les réfugiés syriens et les migrants clandestins, désignés comme les responsables de la défaite du parti présidentiel. Menacés d’un renvoi forcé vers une autre ville turque, voire vers la Syrie, les Syriens de la métropole vivent désormais dans la peur des expulsions.

▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/221219/cibles-par-les-rafles-les-syriens-d-istanbul-vivent-dans-la-peur-des-expul
#renvois #réfugiés_syriens #Turquie #retour_au_pays #réfugiés #migrations #refoulement #refoulements #asile

–-> ça date de décembre 2019...

Lebanon faces coronavirus, poverty, hunger - Info Migrants
The Lebanese government has been able to contain the virus so far. Most of all, the strict protection measures affect people living in extreme poverty, and refugees. Their livelihoods and health are at stake.
#Covid-19#Liban#Confinement#Quarantaine#Camp#Syriens#Discrimination#santé#Pauvreté#réfugiés#migrant#migration

▻https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/24418/lebanon-faces-coronavirus-poverty-hunger

Ces indésirables réfugiés syriens - Le monde diplomatique
Accueillis à bras ouverts dès le début de la guerre civile qui ensanglante leur pays, les réfugiés syriens sont désormais dans le collimateur d’Ankara. Ébranlé par de récents déboires électoraux et incapable de rassurer sa population quant à sa capacité à faire face à l’épidémie de Covid-19, le régime de M. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan donne des gages à une opinion désormais hostile à leur présence.
#Covid-19#Turquie#Réfugiés#Syriens#Discrimination#Encampement#Santé#Pauvreté#Politique#migrant#migration

S’ils ont droit aux soins gratuits, Médecins du monde (MDM) a relevé que près d’un quart des réfugiés syriens dans les villes et plus de la moitié dans les zones rurales n’ont accès ni à un hôpital ni à l’un de ces nouveaux dispensaires de santé primaire récemment ouverts dans les régions à forte population syrienne (6). Au coût du transport pour s’y rendre s’ajoute l’obstacle de la langue ; et puis, il y a la peur d’être déportés en Syrie pour les quelque 200 000 clandestins qui ne disposent même pas de « protection temporaire ». Ou bien, enfin, la crainte d’être renvoyés dans leur ville d’enregistrement pour ceux partis à la recherche d’un travail ailleurs en Turquie.

▻https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2020/05/BONZON/61783

Turkey’s Syrian refugees among hardest hit amid coronavirus pandemic - Al Monitor
Some 4 million Syrians scattered across Turkey are among the most vulnerable to the novel coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout as most of them are unable to work due to restrictions and also cannot benefit from relief assistance.
#Covid-19#Turquie#Réfugiés#Syriens#Discrimination#Encampement#Santé#Pauvreté#Politique#migrant#migration

▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/04/turkey-syria-refugees-most-affected-by-coronavirus-jobless.html

Syrian teenager shot dead in her chest -Multeci Medyasi
In Adana, police shot and killed 19-year-old Syrian refugee Ali El Hemdan on the grounds that he did not comply with the ’stop warning’. While the incident reflected to the press as being shot in the leg, it is seen that the young man was shot in the chest. The murder of Ali El Hemdan was on the agenda on Twitter with the label # AliyiÖldürenlerNerede. The police who shot Hemdan were exposed.

#Covid-19#Turquie#Réfugiés#Syriens#Discrimination#Encampement#Assasinat#Politique#migrant#migration

▻https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=fr&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.fr&sl=tr&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://multecimedyasi.org/2020/04/28/pvsk-yine-can-aldi-suriyeli-genc-gogsunden-vurularak-olduruldu/&usg=ALkJrhhMyWBt1U3cPSzNOzlFwmp86Ew7Ug

How COVID-19 is limiting healthcare access for refugees in Lebanon - The New Humanitarien

Lebanon’s countrywide lockdown is meant to stem the spread of COVID-19 and protect lives. But for Syrian refugees struggling with barriers to movement as well as growing poverty, it may be having life-threatening consequences.
Until recently, a local NGO brought her the medication she needs to stay healthy. But on 15 March Lebanon instituted a nationwide night-time curfew, and various municipalities put in place their own restrictions on the movements of the country’s estimated 1.5 million refugees. Some have also limited the ability of aid workers to enter camps like the one Assaf lives in, even though these informal settlements have so far had no documented cases of COVID-19. As of 20 April, Lebanon had 677 confirmed cases of the virus, and 21 deaths.

#Covid-19#Liban#Confinement#Quarantaine#Camp#Syriens#Discrimination#santé#réfugiés#migrant#migration

▻https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2020/04/21/Lebanon-coronavirus-refugee-healthcare

Chypre : Human Rights Watch appelle à la libération de 175 Syriens confinés dans »des appartements surpeuplés »- Diaspora en ligne
Human Rights Watch a exhorté jeudi les autorités chypriotes-turques à libérer 175 migrants syriens qui ont été assignés à résidence dans des appartements surpeuplés, selon l’ONG, après le naufrage de leur embarcation le mois dernier.
#Covid-19#Turquie#Chypre#Syriens#Confinement#Quarantaine#Politique#Encampement#migrant#migration

▻https://diasporaenligne.net/actualites-chypre-human-rights-watch-appelle-a-la-liberation-de-175

Turkish Cypriot Authorities: Release Detained Syrian Asylum Seekers-Human Rights Watch
Turkish Cypriot authorities should immediately release 175 detained Syrian asylum seekers, and Greek Cypriot authorities should allow them to cross the line into their territory and process their asylum claims, Human Rights Watch said today.
#Covid-19#Turquie#Chypre#Syriens#Amnistie#Prisonniers#Politique#Demandeurs_asile#migrant#migration

►https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/16/turkish-cypriot-authorities-release-detained-syrian-asylum-seekers

Migrants : Le long du fleuve Evros, « la Turquie envoie les migrants la nuit, les Grecs les expulsent à l’aube »-Diaspora en ligne

Le ballet incessant des bus et des mini-vans autour de cette station-essence illustre le rôle important d’Ankara dans l’organisation et le soutien logistique aux migrants qui tentent de pénétrer illégalement en Grèce.

#Covid19#Turquie#Gréce#frontière#migrant#migration#réfugié#camps#syriens

▻http://diasporaenligne.net/migrants-le-long-du-fleuve-evros-la-turquie-envoie-les-migrants-la-

Des réfugiés syriens aident des Suisses vulnérables face à l’épidémie de Covid-19- HCR
Alors que les personnes âgées et les malades s’isolent, un réseau de Syriens restaure un lien vital vers le monde extérieur pour des Suisses qui en ont le plus besoin
#Covid-19#Suisse#Syriens#entraide#sociétécivile#Réfugiés#migrant#migration

►https://www.unhcr.org/fr/news/stories/2020/3/5e7db258a/refugies-syriens-aident-suisses-vulnerables-face-lepidemie-covid-19.html

Death at the Greek Border: Syrian Refugees Should Not Be Used as Political Pawns - CounterPunch

Death at the Greek Border: Syrian Refugees Should Not Be Used as Political Pawns
#Covid19#Turquie#Gréce#frontière#migrant#migration#réfugié#camps#syriens

▻https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/20/death-at-the-greek-border-syrian-refugees-should-not-be-used-as-politi

What the Hell Is Happening With Migrants in Greece? - Vice News

Turkey opened its border to Greece in a cynical play for cash. That move tipped an increasingly anti-migration continent over the edge.

#Covid19#Turquie#Gréce#frontière#migrant#migration#réfugié#camps#syriens

▻https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a8mny/what-the-hell-is-happening-with-migrants-in-greece

Palestinian, Syrian refugees in Lebanon camps brace for virus - Arab News
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian and Syrian refugees living in overcrowded and rundown camps in Lebanon are bracing for the novel coronavirus as aid groups mobilize to help
#Covid19#Liban#UNHCR#migrant#migration#camps#syriens#palestiniens

▻https://www.arabnews.com/node/1653406/middle-east

“Coronavirus” and Greek border guards end issue of asylum seekers stuck at Turkey-Greece border -Enab Baladi

At the closed gates of Europe, asylum seekers have stood for a month, finding themselves in limbo on the Turkish-Greek borders; they cannot get into the European Union or turn back to Turkey. They set up their makeshift tents, hoping to make their ways to Europe soon, but the novel coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, conspired with the Greek border guards and took control of the Turkish decisions, which were driving them to the West, Europe.

#Covid19#Turquie#Gréce#migrant#migration#réfugié#camps#syriens

▻https://english.enabbaladi.net/archives/2020/04/coronavirus-and-greek-border-guards-end-issue-of-asylum-seekers-

Chaos as Refugees Scramble to Shelter from Coronavirus in Turkey - VoiceOfAmericaNews

“If we don’t get coronavirus, we will get diseases from the bathrooms,” said Amjed, 24, a Syrian refugee, speaking to us on WhatsApp from a squalid, makeshift camp near Turkey’s border with Greece.

#Covid19#Turquie#Gréce#UNHCR#migrant#migration#réfugié#camps#syriens

▻https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/chaos-refugees-scramble-shelter-coronavirus-turkey

Coronavirus : un « désastre en gestation » en Syrie- L’Orient le jour
Deux morts pour 19 cas au total : les chiffres officiels font état d’une situation presque enviable, au regard notamment du drame iranien. Mais ils ne semblent convaincre personne.

#Covid19#Liban#UNHCR#migrant#migration#camps#syriens#palestiniens

▻https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1213924/coronavirus-un-desastre-en-gestation-en-syrie.html

How is Lebanon dealing with refugee camps amid coronavirus outbreak? Al Monitor
Since the coronavirus reached Lebanon, there have been growing concerns about the spread of the epidemic inside the country’s overcrowded Palestinian and Syrian refugee camp
#Covid19#Liban#UNHCR#migrant#migration#camps#syriens#palestiniens

▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/04/lebanon-syrian-palestinian-refugee-camps-coronavirus.html