Tawakkol Karman, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, issued an urgent humanitarian appeal for the relief of Syrian refugee camps, both inside Syria and abroad.

Karman called on the United Nations, international humanitarian organizations, and all world governments to fulfill their humanitarian duties in aiding Syrian camps, and to put an end to the escalating humanitarian disaster.
During her visit to the Atmeh camp in Idlib, Syria, Karman witnessed the suffering of over 120,000 displaced Syrians living under extremely harsh conditions unworthy of human dignity.
She said that the displaced people in the camp lacked everything, from basic sanitation facilities to food and clothing. She found that the management of these camps had no resources to provide the basic needs of the displaced, and the infrastructure of the camps in Idlib was completely nonexistent, failing to meet even the minimum international standards for refugee camps.
Karman pointed out that millions of displaced and refugee Syrians are experiencing an unprecedented and incomprehensible regional and international abandonment, beginning with the failure to provide protection, allowing Bashar al-Assad’s regime to displace them and destroy their homes and villages, and continuing with the world’s inaction in the face of the massacres and crimes against humanity committed by Assad’s regime. This has led to over five million refugees, yet no action has been taken, an unprecedented scenario in human history, culminating in the failure to fulfill even the duty of humanitarian relief.