ces Party, the Kataeb Party, and the Free Patriotic Movement fear the country's sectarian-based political system is being undermined.
– Turkey has accommodated most of its Syrian refugees in tent cities in Hatay province, which have been constructed since summer 2011.
– Qatar is sponsoring 42 Syrian refugees as 'guests of the Emir'.
– Bahrain rejected reports from Bahraini opposition that they were trying to alter the country's demographics by naturalizing Syrians.
– Saudi Arabia said on 11 January 2013 that they will send $10 million in aid to help Syrian refugees in Jordan.
– The United States has sent aid worth $800 million to help Syrian refugees. The U.S. has admitted 90 Syrian refugees since the civil war began. The U.S. has decided to let nearly 2,000 Syrian refugees for permanent resettlement in America.
– United Kingdom will resettle 500 Syrian refugees.
– The European Union has sent aid worth nearly €1,800 million ($2,430 million) in relief and recovery aid for Syrian refugees from both the Commission and Member States. Making it the largest international contributor to Syrian refugees both internally and externally displaced. European assistance reaches up to 80% of the population affected by the crisis.
– Sweden accepted nearly 8,000 Syrian refugees in 2012, and expects more than twice as many in 2013. In September 2013, Swedish migration authorities ruled that all Syrian asylum seekers will be granted permanent residency and the right to bring their families as well. Sweden is the first EU-country to make this offer.
– Brazil is the first country in the Americas region to offer humanitarian visas to Syrian refugees. Brazil's embassies in (Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq) countries neighbouring Syria will be responsible for issuing travel visas for people wanting to go there. Claims for asylum will need to be presented on arrival in Brazil. These special humanitarian visas will also be provided to family members living in countries neighbouring Syria.
– Germany has accepted 40,000 refugees until July 2014 and offered to take 25.000 more.
– Switzerland announced its consideration to accept Syrian refugees per U.N. request.
- As of early 2014 Iran has sent 150 tons of humanitarian goods including 3,000 tents and 10,000 blankets to the Red Crescents of Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon via land routes to be distributed among the Syrian refugees residing in the three countries.
– People's Republic of China has donated $200,000 for Syrian refugees in Jordan.
– Canada will resettle 1,300 Syrian refugees over two years. Canada announced $100 million in humanitarian aid for Syria in June 2013. In January 2014, Canada pledged $105 million to Jordan, of which $100 million was "to promote economic development and deliver basic services, such as education, to Jordanians and Syrian refugees". As of March 2014, "no more than 10 have arrived in Canada."
– Colombia has accepted Syrian refugees that have asked for asylum within Colombia. The refugees are then reported to the United Nations Refugee Agency in Bogotá, where then they are aided to learn Spanish with support of Pastoral Social, a Colombian NGO that works closely with the UNHCR .
– gave $10 million for Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan. Russia also granted over 1000 Syrian refugees asylum.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR
) has a policy of helping refugees work and be productive, using their existing skills to meet their own needs and needs of the host country:
:Ensure the right of refugees to access work and other livelihood opportunities as they are available for nationals... Match programme interventions with corresponding levels of livelihood capacity (existing livelihood assets such as skills and past work experience) and needs identified in the refugee population, and the demands of the market... Assist refugees in becoming self-reliant. Cash / food / rental assistance delivered through humanitarian agencies should be short-term and conditional and gradually lead to self-reliance activities as part of longer-term development... Convene internal and exter