Uncategorized

January 30, 2019

Spending despots’ riches on refugees: a good proposal?

Last week, the World Refugee Council took its recommendations to the African Union, which has agreed to implement some of them regionally

January 30, 2019

“We know that Bashar al-Assad, and his Russian and Iranian backers, have committed countless war crimes

“We know about these crimes because of brave individuals like Caesar, a Syrian defector from the Assad regime

January 26, 2019

Refugee group: Use frozen billions to aid world’s displaced

Axworthy said the World Bank has estimated that there are between $15 billion and $20 billion “in purloined assets that various political leaders have stolen from their people

January 22, 2019

Family Of American Jailed In Syria Goes Public In An Appeal To Trump

In 2012, the Syrian conflict and the swelling number of refugees became his urgent concern. He opened two mental health clinics in Lebanon, and another in Jordan. He taught traumatized refugees a stress management technique known as HeartMath

January 21, 2019

Tell Italy: No shaking hands with war criminals

forcibly disappear thousands of civilians. Restoring diplomatic relations will only serve to enable Assad’s crimes. Just this weekend the White Helmets reported several civilian casualties in Idlib due to Syrian and Russian airstrikes

January 16, 2019

15 Syrian children die of freezing weather

Cappelaere pointed out that since December around 10,000 Syrians have fled Hajin area in Syria’s northern Deir Ez-Zor province due to fierce clashes between Daesh and PYD/PKK terrorist groups

January 15, 2019

Crushing of Society: the Annual SNHR Report

6,964 civilians, including 1,436 children and 923 women (adult female), were documented as being killed at the hands of the parties to the conflict in 2018. Of this total, 4,162 civilians, including 713 children and 562 women, were killed by Syrian regime forces, and 467 civilians, including 169 children and 51 women, were killed by Russian forces

January 13, 2019

Syria: Deadly School Attack Was Unlawful

When I got out of the pickup, I walked a few meters toward the place where the second [projectile] fell. When the third fell, the pressure, it threw me onto the truck. I remember there were two girls, students walking toward me

January 12, 2019

Syrians Arrested, Killed Under Reconciliation Agreements

The government has violated additional portions of the agreements: hundreds of arrests have occurred prior to the end of the registration period in places such as Damascus, Hama, and, more recently, in Deraa and the Idlib countryside