Syrian organizations deplore the Syrian regime's assumption of the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament

Despite allegedly carrying out numerous deadly chemical weapons attacks, Syria will take over the presidency of the UN’s Conference on Disarmament as a result of an automatic rotation between member states. 

A View from a Syrian International Lawyer:
​ Were the April 14 Strikes Legal?

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On April 14, the United States, the United Kingdom and France conducted air strikes in Syria in response to the Syrian government’s alleged use of chemical weapons in Douma. Regrettably, neither the U.S. nor France provided to the public a legal basis for their use of force to conduct these strikes. By failing to do so, they’ve set a bad precedent for the international legal order they purport to uphold.

UN Web TV - The Situation In Syria

Speakers: His Excellency Gérard Araud, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations; Professor David M. Crane, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone; and Dr. Stuart J. Hamilton, forensic pathologist 

SJAC Weekly Newsletter

The Fate Of Douma City:
How It Started & Where Will It End?

On April 7th 2018, reports started surfacing that civilians were coming into Syrian hospitals displaying symptoms of a chemical attack. Shortly after, video and pictures surfaced showing tens of dead bodies of women and children, along with scenes of families suffocated in bunkers that became gas chambers after filling up with chlorine gas. Final death tolls reported 55 civilians dead and at least 1,000 injured.​

Regime Forces Have Dropped Nearly 70,000 Barrel Bombs In Syria

Since the start of the civil war in Syria, Regime Forces have ruthlessly bombed civilians, dropping nearly 70,000 barrel bombs since July 2012. Despite mounting evidence,  the international community has not done enough to stop these bombings.

MEB Weekly Newsletter

Torture Continues In Syria: 
232 Dies of Torture in 2017

Kurdish warnings that they face a potential genocide at the hands of the Iranian-backed forces that have swept through Iraqi Kurdistan over the last ten days “need to be taken seriously,” a leading expert on Kurdish affairs said on Wednesday.

24,746 Women and Girls Killed In Syria Since March 2011

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Since the start of the Syrian civil war in March 2011, 24,746 females have been killed in Syria. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) recently released a report documenting the women who have been killed in Syria using firsthand accounts of the violations. Violations against women in Syria include deliberate aerial bombardments, forced disappearances, torture and sexual violence.
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