Statements
The Fall of the Assad Regime
December 13, 2024 | This post is also available in: Arabic On 8 December 2024, Syrians woke up to a Syria free from the yoke of the criminal Assad regime. After decades of tyranny that violated every Syrian’s right to life in freedom and in dignity, the Assad family’s 53-year rule has finally come to an […]
Syria Sanctions The International Legal Obligations of Sanctioning States
December 5, 2024 | [jp_post_view] | Download as PDF | This post is also available in: Arabic In response to the Assad regime’s violent crackdown on the peaceful civilian uprising in 2011, which evolved from bullets to bombs, Syria was hit with unilateral sanctions. These sanctions aimed to hinder the regime’s ability to commit further violations by depriving it […]
A Joint Statement by Syrian Civil Society Organizations and Victims’ Associations Welcoming the Paris Criminal Court’s Ruling to Sentence Three High-Ranking Syrian Security Officials to Life Imprisonment in the Dabbagh Case
June 5, 2024 | | Download as PDF | This post is also available in: Arabic Paris, 6 June 2024 – On May 24, 2024, the Paris Criminal Court issued a life imprisonment sentence against three high-ranking Syrian security officials close to Bashar al-Assad: Major General Ali Mamlouk, Major General Jamil […]
Statement Demanding the Establishment of an Exceptional Chemical Weapons Tribunal
Nov 30, 2023 | | Download as PDF | This post is also available in: Arabic We, a group of Syrian human rights, humanitarian and civil society organisations, associations and groups of victims and their families, and witnesses and survivors of chemical attacks in Syria. Stemming from: 1. Having been directly exposed to […]
The Syrian Civil Society Conference on Chemical Weapons
Nov 24, 2023 | | Download as PDF | This post is also available in: Arabic CONFERENCE STATEMENT November 23, 2023 Since the Syrian Arab Republic, represented by the Regime, ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) a decade ago, Syria has witnessed a series of abhorrent violations of the CWC. Since September 2013, […]
Members of Syrian civil society engage high level officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as key Ukrainian stakeholders, in Kyiv, to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Chemical Weapon attacks on Ghouta.
Aug 25, 2023 | | Download as PDF | This post is also available in: Arabic On the 10th anniversary of the 2013 chemical attacks on Ghouta in Syria, and in calling for accountability for ongoing war crimes in Ukraine emboldened by the impunity for past and ongoing crimes in Syria, a group […]
Joint statement of Syrian and international civil society organizations
Jul 20, 2023 | | Download as PDF | This post is also available in: Arabic Joint Statement of Syrian Civil and International Organizations on the Initiation of Proceedings and the postponement of the public hearings on provisional measures on Acts of Torture in Syria before the International Court of Justice – We […]
Civil Society Organizations Urge UN Member States to Vote in Favor of Independent Institution on Missing Persons in Syria
Jun 27, 2023 | | Download as PDF | This post is also available in: Arabic At the end of June, the UN General Assembly will be called to vote on a resolution to establish an independent institution to clarify the fate and whereabouts of missing people in the Syrian Arab Republic, a […]