Jordan: Step Forward, Step Back for Urban Refugees

Expand Syrian children attend class in a school in the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan, October 20, 2015. The school taught Syrian girls in the morning and boys in the afternoon, but lacked electricity, heating, and running water.  © 2016 Bill Van Esveld/Human Rights Watch (Amman) – Jordan began on March 4, 2018 to regularize the status of refugees who have been living in towns and cities without permits, offering them greater protection, Human Rights Watch said today. However, on January 24, the government revoked the eligibility for subsidized health care for people living outside…

© Human Rights Watch - dimanche 25 mars 2018