Drivers Of Despair: Refugee Protection Failures in Jordan and Lebanon

London conference: What’s driving Syrian refugees to despair?

As world leaders and international donors meet in London this week to pledge money for the Syria crisis, millions of refugees across the Middle East are being driven into further despair. The Norwegian Refugee Council is publishing new data showing the protection failures with regard to Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan. Among the figures showing the growing desperate situation for refugees we find that:

In Lebanon, an estimated 70 per cent of the refugee population, that is more than 700,000 people, has lost its legal stay

In Jordan, some 250,000 Syrian refugees in host communities are still estimated to be without an updated government registration

30 per cent of Syrian refugee children in Jordan do not have birth certificates

More than 1 million people - or 7 out of 10 refugees from Syria - now live in poverty across Jordan and Lebanon

In Jordan, 50 per cent of Syrian refugees surveyed by NRC at the end of 2015 said that they were intending to leave Jordan because they saw no future