UNHCR commissioner visits Syrian refugees camp in Lebanon

The UN refugee agency said that staggering numbers of Syrian refugee children in Jordan and Lebanon are growing up in fractured families, missing out on education and serving as their household's primary breadwinner. "If we do not act quickly, a generation of innocents will become lasting casualties of an appalling war," said UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres was quoted by the UNHCR official website as saying during a visit to Lebanon's border town of Arsal. A report, entitled "The Future of Syria – Refugee Children in Crisis", details the fracturing of families, with more than 70,000 Syrian refugee families living without fathers, and over 3,700 refugee children unaccompanied or separated from both parents.