As Middle East countries begin to restore relations with Syrian President Bashar Assad, many Syrian refugees who fled civil war fear they will be forced to return to their homeland.
AMMAN US Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice Desirée Cormier Smith met on Sunday with government officials, and civil society partners from different governorates to discuss their efforts to support underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in Jordan and provide access for them to crucial support services.
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Six and a half years ago, international governments and organizations successfully negotiated the "Grand Bargain," an agreement that the largest international non-governmental organizations would allocate 25% of their humanitarian funding to small NGOs. Nowhere was the deal more hotly anticipated than Jordan, where the Syrian refugee crisis compounded existing problems of workforce participation and water scarcity.