The EMHRN, the CIHRS and their Syrian partner organizations welcome the 7th report of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria and commend the extensive efforts to uncover international crimes occurring in Syria.
Oral Intervention on Syria during the United Nations Human Rights Council Read More »
As the EU sets to evaluate progress made by its southern neighbours, we ring the alarm on the restriction on civil society and the assaults on the rights to freedom of association, assembly and expression sweeping the Arab World.
Assessing EU’s Southern Neighbours: The Erosion of Civil Society in the Euromed Read More »
The government of Syria should immediately release the arbitrarily detained human rights defender Mazen Darwish and his colleagues Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Ghareer, 61 human rights organizations said today.
Syria: Free Key Rights Defenders Read More »
A new website being launched by a group of international human rights groups hopes to shed light on the plight of Syrian civil society activists including human rights defenders, media and humanitarian workers.
Syria : Launch of the Website free-syrian-voices.org Read More »
During the 2011 protests, Syrian women have been exposed to arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, torture, sexual violence and summary executions among other acts of violence, as seen on a recent EMHRN report.
International Women’s Day: Violence rises, impunity prevails Read More »
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the EMHRN published its regional report that alerts violence against women has dramatically increased in the Euro-Mediterranean region during the recent years.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, EMHRN’s new report comes to shed light on the sharp increase in gender-based violence. Special Focus on Violence against Women in the Syrian Conflict.
EMHRN: Stop Violence Against Women! Read More »
A coalition of Syrian rights groups supported by the EMHRN and CIHRS warn of spiraling violence against women in Syria and call for an end to impunity for those who commit these atrocities.
Syrian Human Rights Defenders to the United Nations Human Rights Council Read More »
Despite the international reaction and calls for the release of human rights defender Mazen Darwish and that of his colleagues the situation for human rights defenders in Syria remains critical.
Syria- On the second anniversary of the arrest of Mazen Darwish Read More »
As the Winter Olympics open, we call on the UN Security Council to put an end to illegal methods of war in Syria by supporting a Resolution demanding full and unimpeded humanitarian access to all areas of Syria.
