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HRH CROWN PRINCESS AND THE MINISTER VISITS SYRIAN REFUGEES
HRH Crown Princess and Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach leaving today to Jordan to focus on the war in Syria and the millions of refugees pouring across the border into neighboring countries.
The visit to Jordan consists of a field visit to a refugee camp where the Crown Princess and the minister will have the opportunity to talk with Syrian refugees and get a first-hand impression of the situation, relief efforts and new humanitarian needs.
The Crown Princess is patron of the Danish Refugee Council, which is responsible for the distribution of basic relief items in refugee camps for victims of the war, both in neighboring countries, but also inside Syria. Danish Refugee Council and the Danish Red Cross are some of the few humanitarian organizations that the Syrian regime allowed to operate in the country and therefore plays a central role in the international community's humanitarian efforts.
More than six million people have fled because of the Syrian civil war, two million to neighboring countries such as Jordan and Lebanon and Northern Africa. Four million refugees inside Syria. The situation is particularly chaotic in the western part of the country and around the cities of Aleppo and Homs. Here's population trapped between the fighting forces, and it is very difficult for international aid agencies to get help.
As part of the Crown's and development minister's program in Jordan are also included visits to projects not directly related to the war. Here is Danish-supported initiatives in the Arab Initiative, which focuses on women's rights - including violence prevention.
Gender equality and women's rights is also a priority area for Danish development assistance. The Crown Princess and the minister has previously visited Mozambique to focus on the area.
Source: kongehuset.dk