Syria | Alkarama

Syria/World Commemorates Tenth Anniversary of Chemical Massacre : UN Official Stresses Need for Accountability

Syrian activists around the world commemorated the tenth anniversary of the victims of the Syrian regime's chemical attack. This attack on the population of "Ghouta Damascus" on August 21, 2013 killed about 1,450 civilians, including more than 200 children and women, and wounded 6,000 others, according to data from the Syrian Network for Human Rights.

08 Sep 2023

Iraqi refugee remains missing since arrest and enforced disappearance by Syrian authorities in June 2012

(Geneva, August 13, 2018) – On August 9, 2018, Alkarama requested the intervention of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) in the case of Layth Al Janabi, an Iraqi refugee in Syria who remains missing since he was arrested and forcibly disappeared by the Syrian authorities in 2012.

15 Aug 2018

Syria: Five more cases of enforced disappearance submitted to UN Working Group

(Geneva, July 5, 2018) – Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians have submitted five cases of enforced disappearances in Syria to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), requesting that the UN experts promptly intervene with the Syrian authorities to ensure the individuals’ immediate release.

05 Jul 2018

Our concerns

Serious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law and devastating effects of the armed conflict on the civilian population;
Systematic and widespread practice of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions in detention;
Impunity of perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity;
Arbitrary detention in inhuman conditions of tens of thousands of civilians in camps, including families of former ISIL combatants.

Human Rights Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

ICCPR Ratified ?

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ICCPR Ratification Date

21 Apr 1969