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Amnesty International: Former refugees tortured, raped, disappeared after returning home

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Syrian security forces have subjected Syrians who returned home after seeking refuge abroad to detention, disappearance and torture, including sexual violence, Amnesty International said today. In a new report, “You’re going to your death”, the organization documented a catalogue of horrific violations committed by Syrian intelligence officers against 66 returnees, including 13 children. Among these […]

EU: Resolution about Syrian forced disappearances

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Syria | European Parliament Adopts Resolution: Calls for Accountability and the Creation of International Mechanism to Locate the Missing and their Remains March 15, 2021 On Thursday, 11 March 2021, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the Syrian conflict – 10 years after the uprising, by a large majority of votes; 568 for, 79 […]

Syria in HRW World Report 2020

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Events in Syria of 2019 reinforced the conclusion that the atrocities and rights violations that have characterized the conflict continued to be the rule, not the exception. The Syrian-Russian military alliance in April re-launched military operations against Idlib, the last anti-government foothold, with indiscriminate attacks and prohibited weapons. Areas recaptured by the government saw property […]

Summary of the Syrian refugees’ situation in the educational sector

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Syrian refugee children attend a class at a school in Mount Lebanon Access Center for Human Rights (ACHR) November 2019 – /Lebanon Eight years after of displacement in Lebanon, and despite the international community’s financial support to the host community which is estimated at around $ 8 billion since 2011, Syrian refugees continue to face […]

US Department of State Report on Human Rights: Syria

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Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Syria        Permalink: http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/index.htm?year=2018&dlid=289230 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY President Bashar Assad has ruled the Syrian Arab Republic since 2000. The constitution mandates the primacy of Baath Party leaders in state institutions and society, and Assad and Baath party leaders dominate all three branches of government as an authoritarian regime. An uprising […]

Chatham House: The Syrian Regime Is Using ISIS to Punish Civilians

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  30 July 2018 The latest terrorist attack in the southern city of Sweida has more to do with regime calculations than an ISIS resurgence. Dr Lina Khatib Head, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House Twitter 2018-07-30-Yarmouk.jpg Syrian pro-regime forces enter Yarmouk. Photo: Getty Images. Share    The ISIS attack on Sweida in southern […]

DEMAND JUSTICE FOR SYRIANS KILLED BY US-LED COALITION

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Amnesty International UK ‘We thought the forces who came to evict Daesh would know their business and would target Daesh and leave the civilians alone. We were naïve. By the time we had realised how dangerous it had become everywhere, it was too late; we were trapped.’ Rasha Badran, resident of Raqqa who lost almost […]

Syria: Thousands of Displaced Confined to Camps

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View from hill overlooking Ain Issa displacement camp in Syria, May 2018.  © Human Rights Watch  (Beirut) – The de facto authorities of two areas of northeast Syria are unlawfully restricting the movement of people who escaped from Islamic State (also known as ISIS)-held areas in displacement camps, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities from the Syrian […]

World Health Organisation (WHO) : Syrians die of heat and disease in the south amongst them 12 children

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World Health Organisation (WHO) asked to provide access to reach 210,000 displaced people who have fled the fighting in southern Syria and in urgent need to medicines and health services, and amongst them in need for evacuation. The organisation continued to say that with temperature rise to 45 Celsius, no less than 15 Syrians including […]