Four rights groups called on the UN to halt programmes that “could incentivise premature and unsafe returns” to Syria on Tuesday. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Refugee Protection Watch and the Syrian Association for Citizens’ Dignity issued a joint statement during UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi’s visit to the country. It follows a tweet by the ‘EU in Syria’ account that Grandi met Dan Stoenescu, head of the EU delegation to Syria in Damascus. The UNHCR confirmed with The New Arab Grandi’s visit to Damascus. The rights groups said none of the UN refugee agency’s …