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Israel carried out several strikes on Wednesday in Damascus and on Syrian regime forces deployed to Druze areas of southern ...
Human Rights Advocate Describes Life For Syrians Under Siege NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Wissam Tarif, who has been working on Syria human rights issues as the Middle East director of Avaaz, an ...
The effective participation of women and attention to women’s rights issues is a critical element to any effort to end the violence and promote a sustainable peace in Syria, Human Rights ...
U.N. issues new Syria war death toll, says 350,000 is an ... The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that 500,000 people have been killed in the war and that it is examining a further ...
As the situation in Syria becomes increasingly desperate (on Wednesday, February 3, the United Nations suspended peace talks aimed at ending the five-year civil war), members of the Smith and ...
A verdict by a court in Germany in a watershed case for torture survivors and international justice is expected in January 2022. The trial, involving charges of crimes against humanity against an ...
War monitor reports 248 killed in clashes in Syria's Sweida province, including Druze minority members and security personnel ...
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) underscores the critical importance of integrating women into Syria’s transitional justice process. Women have endured systemic violations – ...
After being entrusted with the Caesar files, Human Rights Watch published a damning report in 2015 entitled If the Dead Could Speak.Three years later, Amnesty International reported evidence of ...
Syria Syria is 'one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophes,' says human rights lawyer The country marks a decade of civil war with millions displaced, more than 400,000 killed ...