International communities' response to the world's largest refugee crisis

Last month top UN officials warned that Syrians are expected to surpass Afghans as the world’s largest refugee population. Going into the fourth year of the bloody revolution-turned-war, an influx of almost one million Syrians have sought refuge in neighbouring Lebanon. The situation was recently deemed a “serious threat” by both Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil and Ninette Kelly, UNHCR’s regional representative for Lebanon, who also described the country’s precarious circumstances in a piece he wrote for MEMO earlier this year.

Last Thursday, a UN official expressed concerns that donor nations may not grasp the potential impact of this further destabilisation in Lebanon and called for an international “shouldering” of the situation.

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