The Need to Establish the Rule of Law and Accountability in Syria’s Rebel Held Areas
„…the failure of the UNSC to respond to the slaughter in Syria – a disgrace that history will judge harshly,“ Samantha Power
Syria inaction a stain on the UN? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23057745 …
DCHRS #Syria Temporary Revolution Judiciary and Prison Conditions in the Liberated Areas of Syria: Findings and… http://fb.me/H1jjDHKT
„The council’s inaction on #Syria is a moral and strategic disgrace that history will judge harshly.“ Susan #Rice’s final word to the #SC.
BLOG: Syrian refugee children need more than just food and water – Free #Syria http://huff.to/1afJRwZ
Using Technology to Help Educate Syrian Refugees | #Syria News: http://ow.ly/nfUk8
Video Report: Project brings education to #Syria ’s children: http://youtu.be/csSsUCw9BmE
Stolen childhood: Crisis turns Syrian children into parents – How it feels to be in the shoes of the barefooted ‘walking statistics’ of…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
Palestinian refugees not involved in #Syria conflict, says Abbas http://ow.ly/mF5Ik
Preserving #Syria’s intellectual capital http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-0705-syria-20130705,0,5085365.story …
Syrian Refugees Straining Lebanese Villages – Free #Syria http://ow.ly/mBpF6
@JasonMccue @tobycadman David Falt’s Syria strategy: end the conflict with transitional justice & lawfare: http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/let-lawfare-shape-the-conflict-not-the-flow-of-arms-by-david-falt/ … …
France says it has concrete evidence that the chemical agent Sarin is being used in Syria.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22773268
Foreign minister Laurent Fabius says laboratory tests have confirmed that the agent has been used several times, in a limited way. He didn’t say who might have used it.
From Sareta Ashraph, member of the Syrian COI:
The latest report of the independent international Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic is out. It covers the period 15 January to 15 May 2013 with findings are based on 430 interviews and other collected evidence.
The Commission documents for the first time the systematic imposition of sieges, the use of chemical agents and forcible displacement. War crimes, crimes against humanity and gross human rights violations continue apace.
http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/CoISyria/A-HRC-23-58_en.pdf
War Comes to a #Damascus Private School | #Syria News: http://ow.ly/mBpMU
Conflict in Syria reaches new levels of brutality – UN report
UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria found reasonable grounds to believe chemicals have been used as weapons. The Commission remains convinced that a political settlement is the only means of stopping the violence and presents its latest report to the UN Human Rights Council.
More: http://sm.ohchr.org/15D0fDs © UNHCR
#Russia: Alexei Navalny found guilty in a trial widely seen as a means of silencing the popular opposition leader http://ow.ly/n4NQS
Syrian Refugees in Turkey: The Limits of an Open Door Policy – Free #Syria http://brookin.gs/xSgD
Video Report: The cost of #Syria ’s war – We discuss the country’s ailing economy and the educational needs of its refugee children. http://aje.me/1589wUB
Do the #BRICS need to step up their humanitarian assistance in #Syria? http://indrus.in/26587
There are 47,053 Syrian females aged 0-4 registered as refugees in Lebanon. Misery by numbers, c/o UNHCR: http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/country.php?id=122 …
Syria: Latest Commission of Inquiry #humanrights report is now available in English & Arabic here: http://tinyurl.com/d49pevn #HRC23
International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP)
The United Nations has launched a record $5.2-billion aid appeal for Syria as government forces seek to capitalise on recent victories over the rebels, sending reinforcements to battlefields Homs and Aleppo.
Another Syrian update:
– A UN Panel has reported “new levels of brutality” in Syria believing that chemical weapons and more indiscriminate bombing had been used in recent weeks.
– The EU and Russia launched a full day of talks today dominated by disputes over the Syria crisis and Brussels‘ decision to lift its arms embargo on President Bashar Assad’s foes – http://www.news24.com/World/News/Syria-rift-dominates-EU-Russia-summit-20130604
Australia’s former foreign minister and leading architect of the RtoP norm, Gareth Evans, discusses on radio whether or not it is time to apply RtoP to the case of Syria.
You can hear the entire radio interview online here through the link below.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/responsibility-to-protect—syria/4730778
According to Amnesty International today’s International Commission of Inquiry report released at the UN on Syria’s grave human rights situation is yet further evidence to prompt the UN Security Council to refer the situation to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
The latest report documents war crimes and mass human rights violations committed by both sides to the Syrian conflict and provides more evidence of the use of chemical weapons.
Here are a number of articles on the issue:
Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
‚“Syria is in free fall,” Paulo Pinheiro, the chairman of a commission of inquiry investigating the hostilities in Syria, told the United Nations Human Rights Council here in Geneva. “Crimes that shock the conscience have become a daily reality. Humanity has been the casualty of this war.”
The four-member panel said its report to the council “documents for the first time the systematic imposition of sieges, the use of chemical agents and forcible displacement.”
“War crimes, crimes against humanity and gross human rights violations continue apace,” it added, reporting 17 incidents that could be called massacres between mid-January and mid-May.‘
http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session23/A-HRC-23-58_en.pdf.
Heavy-hitting UN HR report on Syria, noting a step-change in the extent of the ‚brutality‘. Tim
Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation
„War crimes, crimes against humanity and gross human rights violations continue apace,” the UN reported Tuesday on the increasingly worrisome state of the Syrian conflict.
„The governments of 15 countries most affected by internal displacement have failed to adequately protect internally displaced persons (IDPs), and in many cases have themselves been perpetrators of violence or abuses that led to the displacements, according to a Brookings-London School of Economics study. „
– International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP):
“If national governments satisfy their responsibility to protect IDPs then R2P is being met at the national level.“
A report „From Responsibility to Response: Assessing National Approaches to Internal Displacement“ recently released provides a link between Internationally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and the Responsibility to Protect – claiming as 15 government have failed to protect IDPs they therefore failing their responsibility to protect.
http://www.irinnews.org/report/94690/displacement-governments-falling-short-on-r2p-says-new-study
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