An unquantifiable tragedy

In January 2015, Lebanon put new visa rules in place for Syrians entering the country with an aim of stemming the flow of refugees crossing the border. In May, the government ordered the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to stop registering new refugees. As a result, the total number of refugees has been declining in 2015. As of October 31, 2015, there were 1,075,637 Syrian refugees. The number of registered refugees from Syria in Lebanon was 1,166,760 on September 26, 2014, according to UNHCR’s website. Executive speaks with UNHCR Lebanon Representative Mireille Girard, who arrived in the country in July, about the new policies and the increasingly difficult life for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. E   Reading through various UNHCR reports throughout the year, it sounds like life for Syrian refugees in Lebanon got much harder in 2015. For example, in the first nine months