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Wed, 17 Jul, 2013 02:56:46 AM FTimes Report, July 17  File picture of a Syrian woman, who fled with her family the recent violence in Qusayr, carries UNHCR humanitarian aid box at Arsal municipality in the Lebanese Bekaa valley as she waits to register her name with her family and find a shelter on June 14, 2013. Last week the United Nations launched a record aid appeal for Syria, saying a total of $3.8 billion was needed to help refugees who have spilled across the country's borders to escape fighting back home. The figure for operations inside Syria was put at another $1.4 billion. Photo - AFP / Lehtikuva. Finland and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) on Tuesday released a report on the sexual violence suffered by Syrian women refugees in Jordan, said a press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The report covers issues of child protection and particularly early marriages among Syrian girls. The UN-Women has compiled the report in collaboration with other international and local organisations.
The report is part of a broader UN-Women project to advance women's political participation in North African and Middle Eastern Arab states. One of the project's objectives is to improve the position of Syrian women refugees.
To this end, the UN-Women has created a protected zone for women at the Za'atri refugee camp in Jordan, giving them the opportunity to share their experiences and receive vocational training.
Minister for International Development Heidi Hautala visited the Za'atri refugee camp in June and held meeting with UN-Women representatives and Syrian women refugees living in the camp.
The UN-Women project's overall objective is to support women's participation in promoting peace and security, to improve the opportunities of women candidates and parliamentarians, and to develop more egalitarian administrative structures.
Finland has committed two million euros in funding to the project, which is scheduled to run from 2012 to 2015. More News
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