Submission to the Human Rights Committee for the 130th Session
I. Introduction More than 10 years have passed since the last review of the Syrian Arab Republic (Syria)before the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee (HRC). Many events have takenplace…
Detainees By Gender
Statistics date: From: March, 2011 - To: today <<Read about our documenting methodology>>
Arrested Women by Prison Type
Regular prison: the civil central prisons in various Syrian provinces. Inelegance Prison: the person is detained in a known security branch. Unknown Place: the person is detained in an unknown…
80 feminist and human rights organisations and well-known advocates support call for sexual and gender-based violence to be tried as a crime against humanity by European courts
State-sponsored sexual and gender-based violence in Syria should be tried as a crime against humanity, 80 feminist and human rights organisations and well-known advocates said today — the day after…
Germany must investigate sexual and gender-based violence in Syria for what it is: a crime against humanity
Berlin/London/Gaziantep – It is long overdue for sexual and gender-based violence in Syrian detention facilities to be investigated and prosecuted as a crime against humanity. This demand is at the…
Last Refuge or Last Hour? COVID-19 and the Humanitarian Crisis in Idlib
The humanitarian crisis in northern Syria is on the verge of becoming a COVID-19 catastrophe. A decade of conflict has left the healthcare system in ruins—and millions of displaced people…
Do or Die: COVID-19 and Imprisonment in Syria
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a dire risk to the tens of thousands of people imprisoned in Syria’s archipelago of prisons and detention facilities, many in conditions so ghastly that they…
Letter & Recommendations to the Committee on Detainees and Kidnapped Persons in Syria “Syrians for Detainees and Abductees” created at the initiative of the Syrian Democratic Council
To: Syrians for Detainees and Abductees Syrian Democratic Council In a press release on 5 April 2020, the Syrian Democratic Council announced the formation of a committee to follow-up on…