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Syria at Human Rights Watch; Syria Charter of Rights and Freedoms Is a proposed modern system of human rights for adoption prior to a new Syrian constitution. 2010 Human Rights Report: Syria, U.S. Department of State, 8 April 2011 "Syria rights activist jailed for five years". Middle East Online. April 24, 2007.
Nadim Houry, a Middle East researcher for Human Rights Watch argued that "Intentionally killing anyone, even a shabiha, once he is outside of combat is a war crime, regardless of how horrible the person may have been". [156] On 10 August 2012, a report indicated that Human Rights Watch was investigating rebel forces for such killings.
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic was set up by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on 22 August 2011 to investigate human rights violations during the Syrian Civil War, to establish the facts and circumstances that may amount to violations and crimes and, where possible, to identify those responsible so that they can be held ...
Many countries whose citizens traveled to Syria to join IS have been reluctant to repatriate them, as have local communities in Syria. "People held in this system are facing large-scale violations of their rights, some of which amount to war crimes,” Nicolette Waldman, Amnesty’s senior crisis advisor, told journalists.
GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrived in Syria's capital, Damascus, on Tuesday for the first ever visit of the global body's rights chief to the ...
A surprise offensive by rebel forces opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime has led to a new round of fighting in the Middle Eastern country's long-running – but until recently ...
Human rights in Ba'athist Syria were effectively non-existent. The government's human rights record was considered one of the worst in the world. As a result, Ba'athist Syria was globally condemned by prominent international organizations, including the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, [1] [2] [3] and the European Union. [4]
The 2011 siege of Hama was among the many nationwide crackdowns by the Syrian government during the Syrian revolution, the early stage of the Syrian civil war.Anti-government protests had been ongoing in the Syrian city of Hama since 15 March 2011, when large protests were first reported in the city, [4] similar to the protests elsewhere in Syria.