The EU will also work to empower Lebanese women to encourage gender equality
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digital gifts
TikTok takes up to 70 percent cut of Syrian refugee donations: Report
Children in Syrian refugee camps are pleading for donations on TikTok in the form of digital gifts with cash value
culture and society
Video: Two young Syrians hope to become millionaires in Brazil
Eyad and Joanna both left Syria to start a new life in Brazil.
Displaced Syrians
Gallery: Displaced Idlib residents spend first homeless Ramadan
Regime bombardment forced Syrian mother Mona Mutayr and her family to flee their home earlier this month and set up camp in an olive grove near the Turkish border.
Amman
Jordan seeks $1bn World Bank loan to cut debt burden
Jordan, whose public debt of $39.9bn nearly equals economic output, has been hurt by the rise in global commodity prices
Abu Dhabi
First Abu Dhabi Dream Ball aims to educate over 5,000 refugee children
Inaugural event held in benefit of UNICEF to provide children with access to learning, skills development and opportunities to empower their future
Aid workers
In pictures: Bad weather hits displaced Syrians
Heavy rains and snow wrecked several informal settlements housing Syrian refugees in Lebanon. The bad weather had also hit Syrians displaced within their own country. Tents were flooded in a camp in the northern province of Idlib, Syria’s last rebel stronghold which borders Turkey.
Aid workers
Heavy rains and snow wreck Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon
Schools closed across the country, roads were cut off by flooding and pools of water formed in major underpasses in Beirut
Syria Crisis
UAE, Saudi Arabia call on Damascus to ‘stop the violence’
Gulf states react to deadly assault on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta
Angelina Jolie
In pictures: Angelina Jolie visits Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Jordan
Jolie also urged UN Security Council members to visit the camp and take a firsthand look at the magnitude of the burden the UN holds.