Syria: people face profound humanitarian crisis - OCHA Briefing | United Nations

Briefing by Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, on the situation in the Middle East.

Joyce Msuya, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator said, “The people of Syria continue to face a profound humanitarian crisis. More than 16 million people – over 70 percent of the population – require assistance. Three-quarters are women and children.”

She added, “More than 6 million Syrians continue to live as refugees or asylum-seekers outside Syria’s borders – many of them in neighboring countries. Within Syria, some 7.2 million people – or nearly a third of the population – are displaced, most of them for over a decade.”