Regional Focus: Israel, Syrians

Opportunity:

FY 2014 Funding Opportunity Announcement for NGO Programs Benefiting Refugees from Syria in Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq [info]
- Proposal submission deadline is 27 December 2013.

Publications:

For Africans in Israel, Time for Justice (Forward, Nov. 2013) [text via ASSAF]

"How do you Rank Refugees? In Jordan, Aid Workers Wrestle with a Deeply Troubling Question: What Makes an Asylum Seeker from Syria Needier than One from Sudan?," The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2013 [text]
- See also related comment from RSDWatch.

Information Note on Syrian Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Europe (ECRE/ELENA, Nov. 2013) [access]

Israel Must Issue Birth Certificates without Discrimination (RI Blog, Nov. 2013) [text]

Survey on the Livelihoods of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon (Oxfam, Nov. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Web site:

Anti-African Racism in Israel [access]
- Compiled by journalist David Sheen; see also his new short film, "Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land," produced with Max Blumenthal.

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