Jordan’s invisible refugees suffer in silence

As the world’s attention remains focused on Syrian refugees, non-Syrian refugees in Jordan suffer in silence.


Areej Abuqudairi Last updated: 20 Jun 2014

Amman, Jordan - Having been a refugee almost all his life, Eritrean Idriss Salameh Idriss, says there is very little he or the world should mark on the occasion of World Refugee Day, which the world is marking today.

"We are only refugees on paper," said the 32-year-old as he gestured to his UN document verifying his refugee status.

Fear of prosecution in his home country Eritrea, which has one of the poorest records of human rights abuses worldwide, forced him to flee to Sudan as a young child.

Having once again been pushed away by the worsening situation in Sudan into Jordan, Idriss is losing hope of being resettled in a place where he could have decent work and living conditions.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/06/jordans-invisible-refugees-suffer-silence-2014619131422115902.html