Today is Human Rights Day. LDHR marks this day by highlighting the plight and life-threatening conditions faced by detainees in Syrian detention centers through the release of its latest report “Death Became a Daily Thing: The Deliberate and Systematic Failure to Provide for Health and Medical Care in Syrian Detention Centers”.
To mark international human right day of Human Rights 2019, Lawyers and Doctors for Human Rights launches one of its most important reports to date, “No Silent Witnesses: Violations against Children in Syrian Detention Centers”.
This week marks the eighth anniversary of the Syrian crisis. Eight years of violence and terrorization of Syrian people. Eight years without accountability for international crimes against Syrian civilians.
After nine years of politicizing and weaponizing health and health services in Syria, the response to the Corona pandemic must not be politicized nor used to overlook crimes committed in Syria.
When the Syrian revolution began in 2011, the regime cut the basic services to all rebellious cities and towns and withdrew all workers in the services sector and local councils in these areas aiming to applying the policy of blockade and preventing food and services from these areas to collectively punish the population,
Non-compliance with laws and regulations or its absence, lack of participation and transparency, low efficiency and effectiveness, failure in responding to the different needs of citizens and other phenomena reflect the absence of good governance principles in local councils.
A man from Izra city in the eastern suburbs of Daraa governorate, named as Omar Shteiwi Awwad, was arrested by Syrian regime forces in the city on March 16, 2021, despite agreed on a settlement previously, and taken to an undisclosed location.
A man from al Sh-heil city in the eastern suburbs of Deir Ez-Zour governorate, named as Thaiban Elwan Jasem al Ibrahim, was shot dead on March 17, 2021, by unidentified gunmen near the central park in the city’s center,
A 16-year-old boy from Mazra’et al Hukoumiya village in the northern suburbs of Raqqa governorate, named as Yazan Khalil al Hasan, was arrested by Syrian Democratic Forces on March 15, 2021,
Monday March 15th will mark 10 years since the onset of the crisis in Syria. A decade of conflict in Syria risks creating further irreversible impact to millions of displaced civilians and on the region unless world powers use all their influence to stop the crisis.