https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/statusofrefugees.aspx Convention relating to the Status of Refugees Adopted on 28 July 1951 by the United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons convened under General Assembly resolution 429 (V) of 14 December 1950 Entry into force: 22 April 1954, in accordance with article 43 Preamble The High Contracting Parties, […]
Media Cameraman killed in Idlib province
Abdul Nasser Haj Hamdan On Friday, February 21, the young media cameraman, Abdel Nasser Haj Hamdan, was killed by a Russian airstrike on Ma’ar Al-Na’ssan in Idlib countryside while performing his work of covering the current events there
Problems of Syrian Refugees in Jordan Worsen due to Decline in International Funding
Zaatari camp, sever conditions in both Winter & Summer January 10, 2020 Ayman Fadilat-Amman Syrian refugee Salma Ishaq, 45, quickly grabbed the food she had prepared days ago for display at a charitable bazaar for sale. Salma works day and night to secure her daily sustenance and the necessities of her family, especially winter heating. […]
Assad Hasn’t Won Anything
After years of bloody warfare, it’s time to recognize what the Syrian dictator rules over: a chronically violent and chaotic failed state. BY CHARLES LISTER | JULY 11, 2019, 1:43 PM Syrian youths walk past a billboard showing a picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad wearing sunglasses while dressed in a Field Marshal’s camouflage fatigues, on display […]
New Notifications Declare Dead Hundreds in Syrian Security Services’ Detention Facilities
Introduction: Starting early in December 2018 until late in February 2019, the Syrian Government-affiliated civil registry directorates have resumed informing relatives of detainees of the latter’s death in the government’s detention centers. Under this, and in the two provinces of Hama and Idlib, dozens of victims’ families were shocked at the death news, which came […]
Syria the least secure country in the world
Syria ranked last in the world peace index, counting it the least safe country in the world among 163 countries in 2018. The World Peace Index published annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace said that Syria has become the least safe country in the world, in term of the risk of living as […]
Chatham House: The Syrian Regime Is Using ISIS to Punish Civilians
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 […]
Russian War Planes Cause Massacre in Idlib
War planes believed to be Russian targeted residential suburbs of Idlib city with several air strikes on Wednesday morning killing 12 people and injuring several others. The strikes targeted the Free Health Directorate in Idlib city, causing great material damage to the building and the machines inside. Victims identified include: Ahmed Faour Hasan Raboo’ Hamd […]
The Assad Files: Capturing the top-secret documents that tie the Syrian regime to mass torture and killings
The investigator in Syria had made the drive perhaps a hundred times, always in the same battered truck, never with any cargo. It was forty miles to the border, through eleven rebel checkpoints, where the soldiers had come to think of him as a local, a lawyer whose wartime misfortunes included a commute on their […]
Where’s the outrage on Syria?
A United Nations commission concluded this week that the Syrian government has engaged in crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, torture, imprisonment and enforced disappearance, as well as what it characterized as “extermination” and other “inhuman acts.” But is anyone listening? Where’s the outrage at the photos of the gaunt and shrunken Syrian civilians who […]
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