Bi-Monthly Humanitarian Updates on Syria

Here is the latest statement to the Security Council from the UNSG regarding humanitarian access in Syria.

Here is the link to the latest ACAPS update on Syria

Here is a report looking at some of the gendered vulnerabilities faced by Syrians in the current conflict

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Alasdair Gordon-Gibson, CSS Senior Fellow, graduated from St Andrews University with an honours degree in Arabic and Islamic studies in 1982, then joined a shipping and insurance agency working in Beirut. The civil war in Lebanon brought him into contact with several of the international and non-governmental aid organisations, such as the United Nations agencies and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. He joined the British Red Cross Society following the conflict in the Gulf in 1991, when he was seconded to work with the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Baghdad. This was followed by a series of international assignments, including Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Russia, the Balkans, India, Sri Lanka, Jordan and Syria, in a range of positions beginning with administering emergency relief and logistics and culminating in representing the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in its field missions as Head of Delegation (Moscow, Damascus, Sri Lanka) and Head of Operations (Burma, Syria).