\u201cWe will not die from Coronavirus, but from hunger.\u201d How do state and humanitarian policies further compound the risks that refugees are facing during the Coronavirus pandemic? In this post, Jasmin Lilian Diab examines UNHCR\u2019s response to Covid-19 and the impact of social distancing and isolation policies on Syrian refugees living in Lebanon. Thus far, UNHCR has focused on preventative health policies in response to Covid-19, such as promoting hand washing, disinfecting and isolation. However, state-led policies and structures already in place, such as preventing Syrian refugees\u2019 access to the formal labour force and health care, and UNHCR\u2019s lack of focus on financial and food aid, further compound the precarious nature of many refugees\u2019 lives, lives already made precarious by the ongoing financial crisis in Lebanon. Diab argues that UNHCR\u2019s response requires us to carefully reflect on \u2018issues that are essential for the survival of refugees and displaced persons in Lebanon during the pandemic,\u2019 and highlights the dangers of policies that are not rights based and therefore put refugees at increased risk.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cWe will not die from Coronavirus, but from hunger.\u201d How do state and humanitarian policies further compound the risks that refugees are facing during the Coronavirus pandemic? In this post, Jasmin Lilian Diab examines UNHCR\u2019s response to Covid-19 and the impact of social distancing and isolation policies on Syrian refugees living in Lebanon. Thus far, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[120,101,106,81,171],"blog_country":[151,153],"facebook":[],"youtube":[],"twitter":[],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-policy","tag-covid-19","tag-humanitarian-action","tag-lebanon","tag-refugees-voices","tag-syria","blog_country-lebanon","blog_country-syria"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplebeyondborders.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplebeyondborders.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplebeyondborders.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplebeyondborders.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplebeyondborders.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peoplebeyondborders.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplebeyondborders.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplebeyondborders.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplebeyondborders.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"blog_country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplebeyondborders.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_country?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"facebook","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplebeyondborders.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facebook?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"youtube","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplebeyondborders.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/youtube?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"twitter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplebeyondborders.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/twitter?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}