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UN Report Highlights Unbearable Suffering of Syrian Women Refugees

© Sputnik / Andrey Stenin / Go to the mediabankWomen and children, refugees from Syria, at a refugee camp in the city of Halba in the north of Lebanon.
Women and children, refugees from Syria, at a refugee camp in the city of Halba in the north of Lebanon. - Sputnik International
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As many as 150,000 Syrian women who have fled the country’s civil war face hunger, isolation and are struggling to meet their families’ needs, the UN refugee agency told RIA Novosti.

NEW YORK, July 8 (RIA Novosti) – As many as 150,000 Syrian women who have fled the country’s civil war face hunger, isolation and are struggling to meet their families’ needs, the UN refugee agency told RIA Novosti.

“What we see is catastrophic for women who live as refugees and head households in the region. It’s a living nightmare. Some 80 percent of these women are out of work and 60 percent live in fear,” Adrian Edwards, spokesman for the refugee agency UNHCR, told RIA Novosti.

“We’re three and a half years into this crisis and the problem still grows. Every month we see 100,000 Syrians register as refugees and a crisis that accelerates faster than the funding arrives to meet the needs of nearly three million refugees,” Edwards said.

The UN’s new report, "Woman Alone – the Fight for Survival by Syrian Refugee Women", was released on Tuesday. It focusses on more than 145,000 Syrian refugee families in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan that live in overcrowded homes, makeshift shelters and tents.

“Syrian refugee women are the glue holding together a broken society,” said UNHCR envoy Angelina Jolie.

“Their strength is extraordinary, but they are struggling alone. Their voices are an appeal for help and protection which cannot be ignored,” she added.

About 150,000 people have died in a conflict that started as peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad but quickly descended into chaotic fighting between government forces, rebels and hardline Islamist militias.

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