(Oxfam) – Violence, brutality and unlawful treatment by authorities on the Western Balkan route are a frequent occurrence, claim refugees and other migrants in a new NGO report revealed today. People fleeing war, persecution and poverty describe beatings, robbery and inhuman treatment at the hands of police, border guards and other officials. In many cases, people […]
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(CNN) – These methods of warfare are so grotesque, they’re banned by international law. Airstrikes on civilian hospitals. Barrel bombs that kill and maim indiscriminately. Chemical attacks that suffocate children with their eyes still open. But these are the threats Syrian civilians face every day. An estimated 90,000 to 120,000 civilians have been killed since the […]
(HRW) – Participants at a conference on Syria in Brussels on April 5, 2017, should address the reasons why more than half a million refugee children are still not in school, Human Rights Watch said today. Donors and host countries had pledged that all Syrian refugee children would be receiving a quality education by the end […]
(New York Times) – Holding photographs of dead Syrian children after a suspected chemical bomb attack, the United States ambassador to the United Nations warned on Wednesday that her country might take unilateral action if the Security Council failed to respond to the latest atrocity in the Syria war. Facing her first serious Syria showdown at the […]
(LA Times) – Dozens of people were killed and scores were wounded Tuesday in a suspected chemical weapons attack on rebel-held areas of northern Syria on Tuesday, activists and a monitoring group said. Some activists placed the death toll higher, from 70 to 100. Several reported that airstrikes had targeted clinics treating the wounded. Link
(Terre des Hommes International Federation) – With the Syrian War now lasting longer than World War Two, it may seem difficult to think of a time when the guns fall silent and fighter jets no longer cut through the skies. But as far away as this may seem, it will happen. And when it does, the […]
(Al Jazeera) – Suspected Russian fighter jets have bombed a hospital in a city in the northern province of Idlib, wounding several people, a rescue group said. At least ten people were injured when three strikes targeted the main hospital in Maaret al-Numan on Sunday evening, destroying the building, a Syrian Civil Defence official told Al Jazeera. Link
(The World Post) – Almost every hospital in opposition-held areas of northern and southern Syria were attacked at least once last year, and some medical facilities were hit as many as 25 times, according to a report released Sunday. The Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations (UOSSM), an independent humanitarian organization, in December surveyed 107 […]
(Physicians for Human Rights) – As fighting in Syria’s Hama governorate has intensified over the past week, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) reported today that at least two Hama medical facilities have come under attack in the past seven days. The two facilities – a hospital in Latamneh and a medical point in Kafar Naboudah – […]
