The Revolutionary Youth (RY),[1] locally known as Taveras Ciwanên Şoreşger, continues to recruit minors in Syria’s northeastern areas, sometimes through kidnapping. The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), …
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Human Rights JournalismEditor’s PicksStories & Testimonies
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Input to the Thematic Report to the 78th session of the UN General Assembly
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 …
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Legal reportsEditor’s Picks
Syria: Challenges of Judicial Restoration to Lost, Destroyed Real Estate Documents
Introduction The right to property is one of the basic rights stipulated in all constitutions and laws of countries around the world.[1] However, wars, armed conflicts, and disasters may affect …
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Nearly two years ago, the draft law for professional associations in Syria was circulated. However, it has not been officially approved. Perhaps because it contains many gaps and violates the …
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STJ ProjectsBridging the Gap between Syrians and the Constitutional CommitteeEditor’s PicksSyria's Constitutional Process
Syria: Transitional Justice is the Guarantee to Achieve Sustainable Peace
1. Background: This paper discusses “transitional justice” as one of the most important mechanisms adopted by several post-conflict states to preserve human rights and freedoms. It aims to highlight the …
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Human Rights JournalismCommentaries & Dispatches
Syria: Non-targeted Sanctions Violate the Principles of Justice and the Human Rights
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 …
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Legal reports
Damascus: The Governorate’s Announcement on Removing Yarmouk Rubble Violates Ownership Right
Background On 23 January 2023, the Damascus Governorate published in the official Al-Ba’ath newspaper, Issue No.769, an announcement with the No.454 calling on property owners in the Yarmouk Camp for …
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Legal reports
Syria: Law No. 10 of 2018 is a Tool to Continue the Arbitrary Confiscation of Property
The first legislation on urban planning in Syria was issued during the French occupation on 22 January 1933. It remained in force until it was repealed by Law No. 9 …
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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 …