SDG Overview Regarding the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 goals intended to provide quantitative data on each country’s development progress, Syria ranks 130th of 166 countries and territories. Syria particularly lags behind its regional counterparts ...
Over the last decade, the Syrian Civil War has displaced over half of Syria’s population, with more than 3.5 million people seeking refuge in the neighboring country of Turkey. Turkey has taken in more Syrian refugees than any other country, ...
When I was two, my dad took me to an Iraq war protest in Dallas. Proudly dressed in a white kufi with his long beard, a “war kills children” sign hanging from his neck and me sitting on his shoulders, ...
LOS ANGELES — Ten years of struggle. Millions of people displaced. No sign of resolution. That is the current picture of the world’s largest refugee crisis and the reality of the last decade for the majority of Syrian people. Since ...
LOS ANGELES — In July 2020, amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, each one of the United Nations Security Council member states casted their votes on draft S/2020/667, an essential resolution regarding the humanitarian crisis in Syria. The draft ...
Last month, Saudi Arabia extended its ceasefire in Yemen, citing humanitarian concerns due to COVID-19. For the first time in five years, the entire country is undergoing a cessation of hostilities. However, just a few months before, in late March ...
By: Anushka Sapra, Noah Blackman Glimpse from the Globe · Trump vs. Biden: A Side-by-Side on the Foreign Policy Issues As Glimpse From the Globe continues its special coverage of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, it’s important to highlight the ...