The United Nations has warned that Syrian refugees are resorting to increasingly drastic measures to survive, as “desperate living conditions” continue to plague refugee camps in Jordan.
Marking the release of a report entitled “Living in the Shadows”, the UN said that at least 3.7 million people have fled Syria during the region's almost four-year conflict.
Jordan hosts 620,000 refugees, with one in six living in “abject poverty”.
“Unless the international community increases its support to refugees, families will opt for ever more drastic coping strategies,” said UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres.
In particular he highlighted the plight faced by women and children saying, “more children will drop out of school to work and more women will be at risk of exploitation, including survival sex.”
Guterres called on the international community to do more adding,
Marking the release of a report entitled “Living in the Shadows”, the UN said that at least 3.7 million people have fled Syria during the region's almost four-year conflict.
Jordan hosts 620,000 refugees, with one in six living in “abject poverty”.
“Unless the international community increases its support to refugees, families will opt for ever more drastic coping strategies,” said UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres.
In particular he highlighted the plight faced by women and children saying, “more children will drop out of school to work and more women will be at risk of exploitation, including survival sex.”
Guterres called on the international community to do more adding,
“The generosity of the Jordanian people and the Government needs to be matched by massive support from the international community - support for the refugees themselves and for the local populations hosting them, but also structural and budgetary support to the Jordanian Government for education, health, water and sanitation and electricity to enable it to cope with this enormous challenge.”