Friends of Syria must speak up for refugee rights

Expand Bar Elias, a town in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, has become home to Syrian refugees who were evicted from the Rayak air base, and have settled here in informal encampments. © 2018 Bill Frelick/Human Rights Watch Some politicians in Lebanon, host to the world’s largest per capita refugee population, are looking for signs that it may be safe for Syrian refugees to go home, even as the violence there continues.  Seven years into the Syria conflict, insufficient international support to help Lebanon cope with the refugee influx has contributed to these calls. The Friends of Syria Group meeting…

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