The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continues to face multiple and complex crises from conflicts to climate change and displacement. The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) today issued a rapid assessm…

In April 2022, the humanitarian community recorded some 8,300 spontaneous IDP return movements across Syria, which was 17 per cent less than the return movements that were tracked in March. Over 2,557 of these movements (31 per cent) occurred within Ru…

In a bid to increase the COVID-19 vaccination rates, Syria completed a 2-week intensified national campaign targeting over 2.5 million people across the country. Through more than 1000 fixed centres and 400 mobile teams, the campaign reached nearly eve…

“Member States must act now on behalf of the millions who are looking for their missing loved ones in Syria,” Paulo Pinheiro, Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, said today as the Commission released its paper “Syria’s Mi…

IntroductionMore than a decade into the Syrian conflict, millions of Syrians are looking for their missing loved ones and seeking information on their fate and whereabouts. In December 2021, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 76/228, in which i…

SNHR has documented the extrajudicial killings of three civilians, including a child, by Unidentified parties, on Thursday, June 16, 2022.SNHR issues this daily brief report of the death toll of Syrian civilians who were killed, against all the tenets …

Today in Geneva, Ireland chaired the final round of international negotiations on a Political Declaration on the use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas. Ireland has been leading the negotiations for three years, following lengthy international dis…

Lebanon will sign a “final” agreement to import gas from Egypt on June 21, its energy ministry told Reuters, after months of delays to a plan viewed as critical to boosting power supplies for Lebanon’s stricken economy.The plan, first floated in summer…

The bodies of two women, Fatima Omar al Khalaf and another woman, whom we are yet unable to name, were found by the internal security forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces in Sector Three of al Hol Camp for IDPs near al Hol town in the eastern suburbs…

UN human rights chief won’t seek second termU.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Monday that she will step down when her term finishes at the end of August. The news was welcomed by China rights activists, who have criticized …

Three people were killed on Friday in an unclaimed drone strike on a vehicle in Iraq’s autonomous northern region of Kurdistan, medical and security officials said.The drone “targeted a civilian car” in the city of Kalar in southeastern Kurdistan, said…