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Despite significant protection efforts in Middle East (ME) so far, major gaps remain particularly for complex legal-protection cases. This intervention in Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, and North-West Syria will address selected complex legal-protection issues through integrated legal assistance and protection casework, and aims to improve the overall protection environment in the ME through development of information resources, capacity building for local actors and awareness raising for authorities.
Many fragility factors are common across the ME region and continue to challenge Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Syria. Over five million Syrian refugees are spread across the region, an additional 6.8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) remain in Syria, and 1.2 mio in Iraq. Despite the presence of a range of legal aid and protection actors, effective casework on complex legal-protection cases which are sensitive and resource intensive, remains a gap. As a result, many vulnerable women and children are increasingly marginalized in the ME. The prevalence of these complex legal protection cases is difficult to capture from existing datasets, but is estimated to be at 5-10% of the total legal assistance caseload. Many such cases are presently dormant or labelled as ‘closed unsuccessfully’. A more responsive and coordinated approach by humanitarian actors, using integrated legal and protection approaches, would likely result in enhanced protection for the concerned vulnerable individuals and contribute to their reintegration within local communities.
Objectives Human rights of conflict-affected and vulnerable persons are better upheld through effective prevention and response to complex legal and protection risks in the Middle East. |
