Syria Refugee Crisis Assignment Report

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Introduction
A violent regime attack on public demonstrations in March 2011 in support of a group of
young people who were detained in southern town of Daraa for their anti-government graffiti is
the result of the Syria's refugee crisis. Households started to leave as violence expanded. Within
two months, Turkey opened its first refugee camps, with over 1 million refugees fleeing from
Syria in March 2013. Currently, twelve million Syrians have been displaced and more than one
million Syrians have already been born into exile (Human Rights Watch. 2020). Since 2011,
more than 6,7 million Syrians have compelled been to leave their country and 6,1 million more
have been pushed away but remain stuck inside their country. In neighbouring countries such as
Turkey, Jordan or Lebanon, the vast majority of Syrian refugees have sought protection.
However, are they really safe, are the Syrian refugees getting their required protection and
safety, these questions are still in debate.
The thesis statement of this essay aims to describe the current conditions of Syrian refugees
followed by a critical analysis of the conditions of the Syrian refugees to the current time. The
essay also targets to discuss the current circumstances as well as the range of the protection risks
together with the human rights of the Syrian refugees.
Current circumstances and range of protection risks and human rights violations
The greatest need of Syrians today is security, considering the two major outbreaks of
violence that have erupted in Syria in the last six months; a renewed war in north-western Syria
in October 2019, driving hundreds of thousands into Iraq, and the existing human crisis in Idlib,
in north-western Syria. Syrians need to take shelter in a safe spot (Ohchr.org. 2020). After this

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essential need is addressed can the world deal with Syria's children and families ' other urgent
needs, such as sanitation, food, health care, and psychosocial help, to resolve the horrors which
everyone has experienced (O'Rourke, J., 2014). Income-generating activities for refugee houses
are limited, with a large and growing income-expenditure gap for most of them. Sustainability of
livelihoods, cost of living including rent, along with food insecurity and growing debt, are
essential issues for both the refugees and their families.
Syrian refugees are seeking intermittent, irregular and, wherever they are capable, mostly
unskilled employment. Around 30 per cent of the working-age refugees are in some pay and
sporadic jobs in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, however the wage level are lowering with high labor
competition. Most Syrian refugees may not recognise their legal rights and responsibilities. Such
irregular refugees become more and more oppressed and vulnerable. The most important security
of refugees is access to cross-border travel (Ohchr.org. 2020). New limits on the entry of
refugees on Lebanon's routine border closures in response to cross-border violence and attacks
has enabled in critical protection risks of the Syrian refugees.
Socio-economic conditions and the lack of legal recognition exacerbate the vulnerability
of refugees in camp and urban areas to a number of human rights abusses and disadvantages.
Domestic abuse, sexual and gender-based violence and violence against children have
significantly risen in comparison with the pre crisis era (Yigit and Tatch 2017). In urban
environments the potential for eviction carries significant threats of protection, especially as
local authorities have begun to battle refugees who work informally in some areas. The
persistence of the crisis also has increased host communities ' vulnerability and conflicts between
refugees and host communities are aggravating protective threats.
Historical and political roots