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With over 100,000 Syrians still missing, families are awaiting a vote on a new UN body that will seek to trace those who were forcibly disappeared during Syria's civil war.
Three Syrians whose family members were forcibly disappeared during the civil war were at the United Nations this week to lobby for the creation of an Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic. The UN General Assembly is expected to vote on a resolution calling for the creation of the institution later this month. More than 100,000 Syrians are estimated to have gone missing during the war, which is now in its 13th...
The UN Secretary General and OHCHR will soon release a feasibility study on the creation of a unified, international mechanism to search for Syria’s hundreds of thousands of missing and forcibly disappeared people—something family members and survivors have spent years fighting for.
Since the first days of the start of the popular uprising for democracy in Syria in 2011, the Syrian regime has used arbitrary arrests followed by enforced disappearances as weapons of war, suppression and terrorism against Syrian people calling for political change, as well as against dissidents and apolitical civilians…
US, France and UK Emphasize Their Absolute Estrangement from the Syrian Regime, Which Is Involved in Committing Heinous Violations, Stressing That It Must Be Held Accountable Paris – Statement by the Syrian Network for Human Rights: On Tuesday, October 5, 2021, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) and…