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…
On the 9th anniversary of the chemical massacre in Ghouta in the countryside of Damascus, in which more than a thousand civilians died of asphyxiation, while thousands inhaled toxic gases,…
As Syrian and Russian forces continue their assault on the civilian population in Idlib, the undersigned organizations urgently call on the United Nations Security Council to demand the OPCW[1] Investigation…
On 1 March 2019, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) published its report on the alleged use of chemical weapons in the 7 April 2018 attack on…
Having taken control over Douma, the last rebel-held town in the eastern Ghouta[1] on April 8, 2018, pro-government forces took many arbitrary measures against civilians there, as they arrested young men,…
For Immediate Release – (New York, June 19, 2018) – Governments should strengthen the tools to reverse the unprecedented threat to the global ban on chemical weapons, a coalition of…
On April 7 the world once again was shocked by the heart-wrenching images of Syrian men, women and children who appeared to have suffocated in their houses in Douma, a…
Preface: Despite the repeated warnings by the international community for the Syrian government not to use chemical weapons during the war in Syria, the latter re-attacked al-Shefonia town with chemical…
Preface: On February 4, 2018, Saraqib[1] located in the southern countryside of Idlib was hit by a poisonous gas attack[2]. A helicopter affiliated to the Syrian regular forces threw two…