Créteil du 22 au 31 mars 2013 Le 35e Fésitval “FILMS DE FEMMES” Vendredi 29 mars à 19h00 19h00 : Le FIFF invite, pour cette rencontre, des militantes syriennes Basma Kodamni politologue, Samar Yazbek romancière, Aicha Arnaout…
The Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein is showing a temporary installation by the Syrian artist Khaled al Khani (b. 1975) which was especially made for the space in the Kunsthalle zu Kiel. Khaled al Khani studied painting in Hama…
(Reuters) – Iran has significantly stepped up military support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in recent months, solidifying its position alongside Russia as the government’s lifeline in an increasingly sectarian civil war, Western diplomats said. Iranian…
VAGUE BLANCHE POUR LA SYRIE avec AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FRANCE, la FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DES LIGUES DES DROITS DE L’HOMME (FIDH) , HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, la LIGUE DES DROITS DE L’HOMME (LDH), L’ORDRE DES AVOCATS DE PARIS, LE…
BEIRUT, March 13 (Reuters) – A boy of 12 sees his best friend shot through the heart. Another of 15 is held in a cell with 150 other people, and taken out every day to be…
From Wednesday’s Daily Telegraph Benedict Brogan meets refugees who have fled the horrors of civil war for the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon When the soldiers raid a house, they demand all mobile phones and threaten to…
“Mon ordinateur avait été arrêté avant moi”. C’est le constat lucide d’un activiste syrien arrêté et torturé par le régime de Bachar al-Assad. Pris dans les filets de la surveillance en ligne, Karim Taymour explique à…
Why did the bodies of 110 men suddenly wash up in the river running through Aleppo city six weeks ago? A Guardian investigation found out Discovery It is already one of the defining images of…
Convinced that the Assad regime is trying to destabilize Jordan by targetting the Dera’a region in southern Syria and forcing its residents to flee across the border, Jordanian officials are looking for ways to help Syrian…
The modern effort to build a global system of international justice based on universal human rights is usually dated to the Nuremberg trials, after the Second World War, and the ratification of the Geneva Conventions. In…
In the past week, the Syrian refugee crisis has grabbed headlines around the world as the number of Syrians who have had to seek asylum abroad reached one million. But there is another, less-discussed displacement crisis unfolding…
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received information from reliable sources that human rights lawyer Khalil Matouk remains in incommunicado and arbitrary detention and is being denied access to necessary medical treatment for severe…
The Syrian Organization of Human rights “Swasia” “The International Women’s Day” In the recognition of the International Women’s Day on March 8th, of every year, the Syrian people back home celebrating this occasion with sorrow, pain…
February 2013 interview with Razan Ghazzawi, 2012 winner of the Front Line Human Rights Defender at Risk Award. Razan talks about the revolution in Syria, the personal toll it has taken and her colleagues from the…
المسيرة العالمية لأجل سوريا في الذكرى الثانية للثورة السورية المجيدة.. منظمة تحالف السوريين في اميركا بالتعاون مع 28 منظمة للسوريين في اميركا بالتحضير و الاعداد لاحتفالية ضخمة لاحياء الذكرى في واشنطن العاصمة و ذلك في السادس…
A resident of the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor casts her vote to elect members of the city council on February 23, 2013. In rebel-held Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, opponents of President Bashar al-Assad’s…
(Reuters) – Syrian museums have locked away thousands of ancient treasures to protect them from looting and violence but one of humanity’s greatest cultural heritages remains in grave peril, the archaeologist charged with their protection said.…
Her fame has spread throughout Aleppo. Her comrades have nicknamed her ‘Guevara’, but to many of the city’s residents she is known simply as: ‘the female sniper’. Standing stock still, her finger suspended over the trigger,…
Omar Aziz: Rest in Power Posted on February 20, 2013 by BudourHassan On 17 February 2013, the Local Coordination Committees of the Syrian revolution reported that Omar Aziz, prominent Syrian intellectual, economist, and long-time anarchist dissident, died…
DUBAI, 21 February 2013 (IRIN) – In Salqin, a small town in Syria’s northeastern governorate of Idlib, three members of the Islamist rebel group Ahrar al Sham are lying sick with a contagious fever characterized by…
In the aftermath of a deadly bombing in Damascus on Thursday, a man emerged from a small knot of bystanders crowded around a camera crew from Syrian state television to vent his anger at the foreign…
As Syria disintegrates, it threatens the entire Middle East. The outside world needs to act before it is too late FTER the first world war Syria was hacked from the carcass of the Ottoman empire. After…
A report issued by the Syrian opposition has revealed that the Free Syrian Army now controls all the oil wells in al-Hasakah province and that the Syrian authorities are trying to trade oil for food in…
Washington should realise that the problem with Iran has a workable solution but it is the Syrian crisis that demands a more focused, immediate approach It is a problem that people in Washington are spending…