Human Rights Journalism

PAX, the largest peace organisation in the Netherlands, together with Syrians for Truth and Justice, PÊL- Civil Waves, Humat Dijlah and the Sudd Environment Agency, active in Syria, Iraq and…

  Background Twice in last March, Arab residents displaced from Shuyukh al-Fawqani district of Ayn al-Arab/Kobanî city in Aleppo, appealed to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)…

Executive Summary On the evening of 20 March 2023, three members of the Eastern Army/Jaysh al-Sharqiya—affiliated with the “Liberation and Building Movement” (LBM) of the opposition’s Syrian National Army (SNA),…

1. Background: On 6 February 2023, two devastating earthquakes struck southern Turkey and northern Syria with a magnitude of 7.7 and 7.6, followed by more than twenty thousand aftershocks.[1] These…

This report was amended on 11 May 2023. The number of Syrian fighters currently in Libya is nearly 7000, not 5000, as an earlier version said. Headless of the unrelenting efforts…

1. Introduction On 27 January 2023, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)[1] published its Investigation and Identification Team[2] (IIT)’s third report No. S/2125/2023.[3] The report sets out…

1. Introduction A few days before the end of the last year, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued Legislative Decree No. 25 of 2022 amending the salaries of the Internal Security…

“It took me four years to get a divorce although there were compelling reasons. The prolonged proceedings required by the spiritual court made me suffer a lot; my life was…

On 7 October 2022, an armed group assassinated the Syrian media activist Muhammad Abdul Latif, locally known as Muhammad Abu Ghannoum, and his pregnant wife in broad daylight in downtown al-Bab,…