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Only a handful of merchants, with ties to pro-government militia, can make bids A farmer picks peaches from trees in a farm in the village of Rahbet Khattab in the northwestern countryside of Hama province in central Syria. Seven years into Syrias civil war, some 6.5 million people in the country are unable to meet their food needs, the United Nations says. AFP This aerial view shows Syrian potato farmers using a tractor to plant the root vegetables near the town of Binnish in Syrias northwest...

"I was so surprised, and so afraid," said al-Khalil, 28, who has lived in Denmark since 2015. She fears that if shes sent back, she could face arrest, violence, or even rape at the hands of the Assad regime. Al-Khalil told The Currents Matt Galloway that she left Syria when she was 20 to escape fighting in the early years of the countrys 10-year civil war. She spent time in Lebanon and Turkey, before crossing the Mediterranean in a rubber boat, and making her way across Europe.  Danish o...

Sarah El Deeb April 26, 2021 - 7:23 AM BEIRUT - A leading Syrian rights group Monday called on the international community to reject next month’s presidential elections because they will take place under the rule of President Bashar Assad, who is implicated in war crimes. Paris-based Syrian Network for Human Rights, describing the elections as a sham, said the vote was scheduled by Assad’s government in violation of a U.N.-charted path toward a political re...

April 24, 2021 Condemnation of Russia, China, Cuba and Venezuela Voting in Favor of the Syrian Regime at the Human Rights Council States Voting for the Syrian Regime Are Fellow Dictatorships That Perpetrate and Support Human Rights Violations Paris – Syrian Network for Human Rights: On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, the Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted Resolution 46/22, extending the mandate of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic (COI) for a period of...

To no surprise, Bashar Assad runs for reelection in Syria Syrias upcoming election has been criticized as a "theatrical farce." Though there are five candidates in addition to the incumbent, international governments and the UN see no sign of a free and fair election. 55-year-old Bashar al-Assad announced on Wednesday that he will run for another term As of Wednesday, three days have passed since Hammouda Sabbagh, the speaker of Syrias parliament, announced the date of the presidential electi...

Assad Regime Rips Off Danish Right-Wing Propaganda to ‘Prove’ Syria is Safe width No media source currently available 0:00 0:01:48 0:00 share Syrian state news agency “ ‘Now you can return home to sunny Syria, your homeland needs you’ is a phrase spread widely on billboards in streets of Copenhagen, the Danish capital, in a campaign that confirms the fact that Syria became safe after most of its territories have been liberated from terrorism.” Misleading On April 17, the Syrian stat...

SNHR Provides Online Training to Yemeni Human Rights Activists on Documenting Violations, Database-Building and Advocacy Processes Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), in coordination and cooperation with the Yemeni SAM Organization for Rights and Liberties, held a training session for a number of human rights activists working on the Yemeni issue, with the training delivered by Mr. Fadel Abdul Ghany, Director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights, via the Zoom platform on Tue...

Assad regime uses nearly 82,000 barrel bombs in 9 years A man is seen around debris of buildings after warplanes belonging to Assad Regime hit Idlib, Syria on 15 December, 2019 [İzzeddin İdilbi/Anadolu Agency] April 17, 2021 at 4:38 pm The Bashar Al-Assad regime used nearly 82,000 barrel bombs in nine years of attacks on civilian settlements under the control of the opposition in different parts of Syria, a monitoring group said Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. In a report on the regimes ...

In Nine Years, the Syrian Regime Has Dropped Nearly 82,000 Barrel Bombs, Killing 11,087 Civilians, Including 1,821 Children Format Security Council Resolution 2139 Must Be Implemented and Perpetrators of Indiscriminate Bombardment, Destruction and Forced Displacement Must Be Held Accountable Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) revealed in its report released today that the Syrian regime has dropped nearly 82,000 barrel bombs in nine years, killing 11,087 civilians, including 1,...

Wednesday marked the third anniversary of the devastating Syrian regime chemical attack in Douma, Eastern Ghouta, which left 39 civilians dead including many women and children.  Protesters gathered in the centre of Idlib, northwestern Syria, to remember the victims and call for the Syrian regime to be held accountable for the attack.  The city of Douma, in the Damascus countryside, was attacked with chemical weapons on the morning of 7 April 2018, as part of the Syrian regimes offensive to r...