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If the situation in Turkey is serious, then conditions for displaced people within Syria are truly dire.
Two nights ago, my Refugees International colleagues and I paid a visit
to a cramped apartment on the Turkish-Syrian border. Dr. Najjar, a
Syrian physician, showed us various types of medical equipment he had
gathered over the past week.
The resolution passed despite skepticism on the part of
many Council members, and it’s unclear whether the Council is prepared
for the potential humanitarian fallout.
Camp conditions are so crowded
that many refugees are heading into nearby cities and towns. But they often find that the situation there is not much better.
When the Kenyan government announced in December that all
Somali refugees living in cities must move to the Dadaab refugee camp, I
made plans to visit that camp.
