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Warplanes Target Harasta with Incendiary Napalm

7-November-2017 By admin2

Warplanes targeted Harasta city in the Rif Dimashq province on Tuesday with two air raids consisting of rockets loaded with the internationally-prohibited material incendiary Napalm. The two air raids targeted residential areas in the city with four rockets in each raid. This led to the outbreak of fires in many residential buildings, and the suffocation […]

Filed Under: Editors choice, SHRC's Reports, Statements Tagged With: internationally prohibited weapons, napalm

Ninth Russian Veto Disrupts Rights of Chemical Attacks Victims

25-October-2017 By admin2

On Tuesday evening 24/10/2017, The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) failed to take a resolution to extend the mandate of the Commission that investigates the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the parties involved in this, when the Russian Federation (RF) exercised it’s right of veto in the UNSC against the submitted draft resolution. […]

Filed Under: SHRC's Reports, Statements Tagged With: Chemical weapons, internationally prohibited weapons, poisonous gases, Sarin gas, UN Security Council

Al-Wa’er Subjected to Napalm Bombs and Explosive Cylinders

22-November-2016 By admin2

The Syrian regime has resumed its bombing of the besieged district of al-Wa’er in the city of Homs with mortar rockets, explosive cylinders, and internationally prohibited incendiary napalm bombs, killing four people and causing fires to erupt across the district. Victims identified include: Marwa Ammar Abdul Latif Raheeb al-Mahmoud Ridwan Raheeb al-Mahmoud

Filed Under: Editors choice, Statements Tagged With: al-wa'ar, al-Waer, besieged, explosive cylinders, Homs, incendiary napalm bombs, internationally prohibited weapons, mortar rockets

On the International Day for Refugees: Over Half of All Syrians Have Left Their Homes

20-June-2016 By admin2

Five years ago in June 2011, the displacement and refugee crisis of Syrian began. Since then, it has only increased, rising from several thousand refugees at the end of June 2011 to at least 11.5 million Syrians who have been forced to leave their homes during this period. At the end of May 2016, the […]

Filed Under: Editors choice, Special reports Tagged With: arbitrary bombing, asylum, crisis, displaced, Europe, international day for refugees, internationally prohibited weapons, jordan, lebanon, refugee crisis, syrian refugees, turkey

Phosphorous Bombs Rain over Rural Western Aleppo

12-June-2016 By admin2

On Sunday dawn, war planes targeted the villages of rural western Aleppo with internationally prohibited Phosphorous bombs, causing fires to spread on a wide scale across the areas which were targeted. The air strikes containing phosphorous bombs targeted the city of Andan, and the towns of Ainjarah, Qabtan al-Jabal, and Orm al-Kubra, as well as […]

Filed Under: Editors choice, Statements Tagged With: Andan, children, civil defence, fires, internationally prohibited weapons, phosphorous bombs, rural western aleppo

Napalm and Cluster Bomb Air Strikes on Idlib

5-June-2016 By admin2

Two were killed and 32 injured in air strikes launched by war planes on the city of Idlib. The air strikes targeted the grocery market, the Sham’at roundabout, Shuaib Mosque, the State Security Roundabout, the Yahya Dahnain School, the compound, and the Carlton Campus hotel. Documentation carried out by SHRC reveals that the majority of […]

Filed Under: Editors choice, Statements Tagged With: air strikes, Cluster bombs, idlib, internationally prohibited weapons, napalm bombs, war planes

Five Years of Continuous Violations and Absent Justice

15-March-2016 By admin2

On 15/3/2011, civilian protests erupted in a number of Syrian cities, rapidly spreading to other cities, before transforming into military clashes which took place in parallel with the protests, consequently increasing the level of violence witnessed in the country. This report compiled by SHRC, documents the most prominent of violations witnessed in Syria over the […]

Filed Under: Editors choice, Special reports Tagged With: Chemical weapons, children, Civilians, Cluster bombs, displaced people, education sector, enforced disappearances, explosive barrels, five years, health sector, human rights violations, internationally prohibited weapons, ISIS, land mines, media, Nusra Front, Phosphorous weapons, Refugees, russia, Syrian regime, torture, women

Four Die from Land Mine Explosion in Rural Idlib

8-February-2016 By admin2

A land mine at the village of Ain Larooz, close to the city of Areeha in rural Idlib, exploded on Sunday evening, killing four people and injuring several others. It is worthy to note that Syrian regime forces and ISIS have been using land mines in a systematic manner in the areas that they retreat […]

Filed Under: Editors choice, Statements Tagged With: explosion, internationally prohibited weapons, land mine, rural Idlib, victims

Douma Targeted with Internationally Prohibited Cluster Bombs

4-November-2015 By admin2

The city of Douma in rural Damascus was targeted with ten cluster bombs, leading to the death of 12 people and the injury of tens of others. Cluster bombs are internationally prohibited weapons, the shells of which split into several other shells upon their release into the air, in order to cause the largest effect […]

Filed Under: Editors choice, Statements Tagged With: Cluster bombs, Douma, internationally prohibited weapons

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