(SAMS) – On March 12, 2018, the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), along with 11 other humanitarian organizations working inside Syria, shared the coordinates of 60 health facilities in Syria with UN OCHA. As part of the process, OCHA then shared the coordinates with the parties involved in the Syrian conflict. After more than seven years […]
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(HRW) – We write in advance of the Committee on the Rights of the Child pre-sessional review of Syria to highlight grave concerns including summary executions of children, unlawful attacks that killed or maimed children, the torture and ill-treatment of children in detention, the military use of schools, and attacks on education and hospitals. The examples […]
(IRIN) – Families sleep rough or in half-destroyed houses littered with hidden explosives, after fleeing a months-long push by Turkish-backed Syrian rebels to claim the city of Afrin and the surrounding area – part of a wider Kurdish enclave of the same name. Shortly after those military operations succeeded, in late March, photojournalist Afshin Ismaeli spent a […]
(The Telegraph) – The United Nations has come under fire for sharing the coordinates of hospitals in rebel-held areas of Syria with Russia, only for one of them to be bombed days later. The organisation gave the GPS locations supplied by NGOs operating in Idlib and Eastern Ghouta to Russia and the US as part of […]
(Al Jazeera) – Dozens of people, mostly women and children, have been killed and 80 others injured after Syrian government forces bombed an underground shelter in Eastern Ghouta, according to rescuers and activists on the ground. Sources on the ground and rescuers from the Syrian Civil Defence, a volunteer rescue group also known as the White Helmets, […]
(NRC) – More than 50,000 people who have fled from Eastern Ghouta to overcrowded and ill-equipped reception centres on the outskirts of Damascus over the last days are arriving exhausted, malnourished and afraid of what comes next. The Norwegian Refugee Council is at the reception sites delivering essential aid with other actors as thousands more […]
(Geneva Call) – In the context of the recent military operations in Afrin, in north-west Syria, a worrying number of allegations on the use of child soldiers have been reported. Geneva Call reminds all parties to the conflict that recruiting child soldiers can amount to a war crime and that no children under 18 years old should […]
(Amnesty International) – To mark the seventh anniversary of the Syria conflict, Amnesty International is calling for the international community to assume its responsibilities and urgently act to end the suffering of millions of Syrians and bring an end to the bloody assault on besieged civilians in Eastern Ghouta and Afrin. Link
(UNICEF) – With no end in sight to the war in Syria, children with disabilities risk being excluded and forgotten. The conflict in Syria continued unabated through 2017, killing the highest ever number of children – 50 per cent more than in 2016. In the first two months of 2018 alone, 1,000 children were reportedly killed […]
(VOA) – The World Health Organization reports an alarming spike in violence against medical and humanitarian workers and health care facilities in war-torn Syria. The World Health Organization reports it has verified dozens of attacks on health care facilities, ambulances, services and workers in Syria’s combat zones this year. WHO’s monitoring system reports 28 hospitals and other facilities […]
