Statements

In complete contradiction to Security Council Resolutions 242 and 497; on Monday, March 25th, 2019, the United States announced recognizing the Israeli full sovereignty over the Syrian Golan occupied since 1967. A step that glorifies systematic violations of Human Rights, and legitimizes violations of the General International Law honoring and validating acts of military aggression

• April 26, 2019
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To the Office of The Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, We, the undersigned Syrian NGOs and victim groups, express our full support to the Article 15 Communication submitted by the Guernica Centre for International Justice with regards to the jurisdiction of the ICC over the hideous crimes committed against the Syria civilian population. For

• April 1, 2019
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We, the undersigning organisations, welcome the French prosecutor’s decision to issue  arrest warrants against three senior Syrian security officers: first and foremost Major General Ali Mamlouk, the Director of the Syrian National Security Bureau, Major General Jamil Al Hassan, the Head of Air Intelligence Branch and Abdel Salam Mahmoud, the Head of the Air Force

• November 16, 2018
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His Excellency Mr. Antonio Guterres Secretary-General of the United Nations H.E. Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights H.E. Mr. Vojislav Šuc President of the Human Rights Council Permanent Representatives of Member States and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council 26 June 2018 Your Excellencies, Today, on the

• June 26, 2018
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Hundreds of arbitrarily detained persons engage in a hunger strike to demand their release 520 persons arbitrarily detained in Homs Central Prison began a hunger strike on Tuesday, 17 October 2017 demanding their immediate release after spending several years in arbitrary detention. These demands were renewed in the aftermath of direct threats from the “new

• October 25, 2017
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Our organization is of one 391 organizations from across 98 countries that signed on calling for Member States to prioritize gender equality and women’s rights and to support women civil society and women human rights defenders. Click here to download the letter.

• October 17, 2017
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September 20th, 2017 We, the undersigned non-governmental organisations, address collectively our calls to the international community to adhere to protect civilians across Syria and take concrete action to hold all perpetrators of blatant human rights violations accountable. On the margin of the presentation of the 14th Report of the Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian

• September 22, 2017
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The High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations, Prince Zeid Bin Ra’ad Al-Hussein Aug 30th, 2017 Your Excellency, On the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, we, the undersigned Syrian human rights organizations, write to you today to express our profound sense of pain and disappointment at the

• August 31, 2017
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The undersigned partner organisations express full support to Syrian activists currently on hunger strike around the world to expose human rights violations, reported acts of torture and extrajudicial killings, which would have been committed against refugees from Syria over the past two weeks by the Lebanese Army in refugee camps in Arsal. It is urgent

• July 23, 2017
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Open letter to Mr António Guterres, United Nations Secretary–General Letter from a group of Women Civil Society Organisations in MENA Dear Mr Secretary-General, We congratulate you on your appointment as Secretary-General of our United Nations and, recalling your swearing-in ceremony where you called on leaders to listen to the needs of their people in the

• April 6, 2017
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