Refugee tents at Arbat Transit Camp for Syrian Refugees in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, March 3, 2014. By Cmacauley (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
The broadcast, Welcoming Syrian Refugees – Asylum in Kurdistan, by the Deutsche Welle T.V. channel offers a sobering report on the work of Salah Ahmad and others in the Domiz Camp in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, where Dr. Ahmad has set up a treatment center for Syrian refugees who are victims of human rights violations. This report and Somini Sengupta’s article, U.N. Reports Sharp Increase in Refugees as Civil Wars Cripple Nations, prompt us to ask, “What concrete efforts can we make to help?”