How Much Longer?

STATEMENT BY THE INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN COMMUNITY


UNRWA (17 January 2014) – How much longer must children suffer from hunger? How much longer must women die in childbirth for lack of medical care? How much longer must we be barred from the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus and the many thousands of desperate and vulnerable civilians caught up in Syria’s conflict? How much longer will we allow such unimaginable civilian suffering?

We, the international humanitarian community, call on the participants of the Geneva Peace Talks to lift the restrictions on Yarmouk refugee camp and all areas of humanitarian need in Syria.

Yarmouk was home to some 160,000 people before the fighting, but much of the camp has been destroyed by the conflict, and today about 18,000 people remain trapped inside, many of them women and children. With reports of malnutrition, people eating animal feed, a severe lack of medical services, and water and electricity almost nonexistent, we fear that time is running out for those trapped in Yarmouk.

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Please add your voice. We hope to reach 23 million people, one for each member of the Syrian population. Together we can make the world listen.

SIGNATORIES

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)

Asamblea de Cooperación por la Paz (ACPP) – Spain

Asociación Europea de Cooperación con Palestina (ASECOP) – Spain

Agência da ONU de Assistência aos Refugiados da Palestina (UNRWA)

Agenda 21 del Islam – Spain

Alianza por la Solidaridad – Spain

American Friends of UNRWA

American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)

Arab American Institute (AAI)

Asociación Comunidad Palestina a Catalunya

Asociación de la Comunidad Hispano-Palestina Jerusalén – Spain

Bab al Shams Village Council

Centre Euro Arab de Catalanya

Comisión de Española de Ayuda al Refugiado (CEAR) Spain

Comité de Arbitraje Musulmán – Spain

Comitato Italiano per l’UNRWA

Comité Nacional UNRWA España

Comunidad Palestina de Valencia – Spain

Consejo de Imanes y Predicadores de España – Spain

Cultura Paz y Solidaridad HAYDÉE SANTAMARÍA – Spain

Federación de Comunidades Musulmanas de Castilla La Mancha – FECOM- Spain

Foundation for Middle East Peace

Friends Committee on National Legislation

Fundación Las Fuentes – Spain

General Union of Palestinian Communities in Europe – Europe

Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF)

Human Rights Watch

Instituto Español de Estudios Islámicos – Spain

Instituto Halal – Spain

Jahalin Association

Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development

Junta Islámica – Spain

Movimiento por la Paz, El Desarme y la Libertad (MPDL) Spain

Mujeres en Zona de Conflicto (MZC) Spain

Norwegian Refugee Council

Observatorio de Defensa del Islam – Spain

Observatorio de Islamofobia – Spain

ONG Rescate Internacional – Spain

The International Rescue Committee

United Nations Children’s Fund

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

United Nations Population Fund, Japan

United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)

United Nations World Food Programme

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

United Palestinian Appeal (UPA)

Universal Peace Federation – Spain

US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

War Child UK

World Food Programme Italian Committee

Women Federation for World Peace – Spain,

Pax Christi International

IKV Pax Christi Netherlands

Rete Internazionale delle Donne per la Pace (International Network of Women for Peace)

Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL) (Italian Labour Conferderation)

Islamic Relief

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN)

Save the Children

Amnesty International

Terre des Hommes Italia

Refugees International

American Friends Service Committee


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