Bassam Khawaja is the Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch. Follow him on Twitter at @BassamKhawaja. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/bassam-khawaja-2/rss en Displacement Tue, 14 Mar 2017 06:02:23 +0000 Bassam Khawaja https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2017/03/14/lebanon-policy-leaves-second-class-syrians-vulnerable-to-return-hrw-2 https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2017/03/14/lebanon-policy-leaves-second-class-syrians-vulnerable-to-return-hrw-2 Lebanon’s residency fee waiver will be life-changing for many Syrian refugees. But, by excluding large numbers of people, the policy risks cementing a second tier of undocumented refugees vulnerable to being returned to Syria, warns Human Rights Watch’s Bassam Khawaja. Laws & Policy Tue, 14 Mar 2017 05:56:02 +0000 Bassam Khawaja https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/03/14/lebanon-policy-leaves-second-class-syrians-vulnerable-to-return-hrw https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/03/14/lebanon-policy-leaves-second-class-syrians-vulnerable-to-return-hrw Lebanon’s residency fee waiver will be life-changing for many Syrian refugees. But, by excluding large numbers of people, the policy risks cementing a second tier of undocumented refugees vulnerable to being returned to Syria, warns Human Rights Watch’s Bassam Khawaja.