As most readers will be aware, Syrian victims of the nine-year conflict in their country have scant opportunities for justice. Russia has repeatedly vetoed efforts to refer the situation to
20 May 2020 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
The long-rumored falling out between Bashar Al-Assad and his cousin Rami Makhlouf, the most prominent businessman in Syria and once close confidant of the president, publicly unraveled last week in
With the spread of the coronavirus, human rights advocates and humanitarian workers have raised the alarm [https://timep.org/commentary/analysis/how-the-covid-19-pandemic-leaves-refugees-and-idps-vulnerable/] about the potential dangers of outbreaks in refugee
Late last month, the government in Tripoli raised alarms [https://www.ft.com/content/2949db12-6abc-11ea-800d-da70cff6e4d3] on a potential source of COVID 19 in the country: hundreds of Syrian fighters arriving
On April 6, 2020, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres released a summary of the report [https://www.un.org/sg/sites/www.un.org.sg/files/atoms/files/NWS_BOI_Summary_
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to create unprecedented difficulties across the world, calls have mounted for economic sanctions to be lifted in response to pressing humanitarian and medical concerns. On
In March of this year, the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC), along with a number of Syrian families whose loved ones were kidnapped by ISIS, were scheduled to attend
A German court has scheduled the first hearings in the ground-breaking trial of a former Syrian government official and his subordinate for acts of torture, the first [https://www.ecchr.
COVID-19 has almost certainly reached Syria. The extent of the infection, however, has been completely shuttered from the outside world. Officially, the Syrian government claims zero confirmed cases, but the