Subject: Re: Let's do a trip to Syrian refugees
From: "Rick Leach" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:25:46 +0000

Yes, definitely.  Are you in DC next week - it would be great to get together / catch up.

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On Mar 13, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Hunter Biden <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Syria
Since the conflict in Syria began, more than 220,000 people have been killed, 1 million wounded, 4 million have fled, 7.6 million have been displaced inside Syria, and an estimated 12.2 million are in need of humanitarian assistance according to the UN. Today, over 20 international aid organizations criticized the UN Security Council for failing to act, as Ryan Lucas of the Associated Press reports<http://csis.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT00NjM4MDg4JnA9MSZ1PTEwNjIwMDU0NTQmbGk9Mjc3NDk4NTQ/index.html>.

Dive Deeper: The New York Times today launched an excellent interactive report<http://csis.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT00NjM4MDg4JnA9MSZ1PTEwNjIwMDU0NTQmbGk9Mjc3NDk4NTU/index.html>, “Syria After Four Years of Mayhem,” which includes satellite photos showing the country is 83% darker at night than before the war.

Last July, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center examined the catastrophic situation surrounding health care and human suffering in Syria and the long-term consequences for the region and the world, in this short animated video<http://csis.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT00NjM4MDg4JnA9MSZ1PTEwNjIwMDU0NTQmbGk9Mjc3NDk4NTY/index.html>.

In mid-June, CSIS hosted an important conference<http://csis.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT00NjM4MDg4JnA9MSZ1PTEwNjIwMDU0NTQmbGk9Mjc3NDk4NTc/index.html> on the human rights crisis in Syria.

Anthony Cordesman’s late February report<http://csis.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT00NjM4MDg4JnA9MSZ1PTEwNjIwMDU0NTQmbGk9Mjc3NDk4NTg/index.html> Syria and the Least Bad Option: Dealing with Governance, Economics, and the Human Dimension points out that “about one-third of Syria’s population are children, many of whom have lost access to education or normal social development for the past three years, and with no end in sight.”

Excellent resource: The website<http://csis.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT00NjM4MDg4JnA9MSZ1PTEwNjIwMDU0NTQmbGk9Mjc3NDk4NTk/index.html>Syria Deeply. The website is “an independent digital media project led by journalists and technologists that explores a new model of storytelling around a global crisis.”

RHB
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