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Veteran NGO practitioners with deep experience in the aid sector discuss how Washington can help fix flawed approaches to assisting civilians in these two conflict zones.
On January 15, The Washington Institute held a virtual Policy Forum with Jan Egeland, Alex Harper, Emma Beals, and Jomana Qaddour. Egeland is secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council. Harper is a humanitarian analyst for Mercy Corps, focusing on Yemen and other parts of the Middle East. Beals is a senior advisor with the European Institute of Peace and a nonresident scholar with the Middle East Institute in Washington. Qaddour is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council, a member of the Syrian Constitutional Committee, and cofounder of Syria Relief & Development. The following is a rapporteurs’ summary of their remarks; play the video to watch the full event, which was moderated by Institute fellows Elana DeLozier and Charles Thépaut.
InfoMigrants By Benjamin Bathke Published on : 2021/01/08
Will Germany be the first EU country to deport people to war-torn Syria? On December 31, the ban on deportations of Syrian nationals deemed to pose a risk to security in Germany expired. Forcibly returning people to Syria is highly controversial: Reports show that detentions, disappearances and torture in Syria remain pervasive.
After the interior ministers of Germany s state governments had failed to agree on the terms of an extension, the general ban on deportation to Syria from Germany expired on December 31. The ban had been in place since 2012 and has been repeatedly extended due to the ongoing civil war in the Middle Eastern nation.