Syria

Fact Sheet Find basic data on Syria, it's people and government and a link to the international human rights instruments ratified by Syria.

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Civil Society Initiatives Learn about the different initiatives on Syria taken by Civil Society.

News on Syria

• Syria: Reveal Fate of Hariri-Case Detainee
• Syria: FIDH welcomes the release of Michel Kilo and calls for the respect of fundamental freedoms.
• Syria: UN Rules Dissident’s Detention Illegal
• Report on the fifth Individual military judge in Damascus
• Widespread judicial repression of Kurdish political activists
• Syria: Reveal Fate of 17 Held Incommunicado
• Syria: Flawed Court Resumes Prosecutions
• Syria: A trial against freedom of expression
• Syria: Ongoing judicial and administrative harassment against Mr. Mazen Darwish
• Syria: new arrest and prosecutions against pro-reform activists
• Crackdown on Syrian activists continue
• Syria must stop repression against human rights defenders
• Human rights flouted in Syria
• Arrests against human rights defenders in Syria
• Unfair trial against Syrian Human Rights Defender
• Charges against Aktham Naisse finally dropped!
• Trial against Aktham Naisse on 26 June 2005
• Trial against Syrian human rights defender continues
• Trial against Syrian human rights defender once again postponed
• Trial against Syrian human rights defender continues
• Human Rights Situation in Syria still Appalling
• Unfair Trial Against Syrian Human Rights Defender
• Unfair trial of Aktham Naisse
• Aktham Nu'aysa
• Syrian Human Rights Defender Once Again Detained
• Syrian Human Rights Defender Detained and Harrassed
• The prohibition of CDF-Syria is unaccceptable
• Halt Arrests of Political Critics - Syria
• 600 Political Prisoners to be Released in Syria
• Mission of inquiry to Syria to visit Nizar Nayyouf

Publications

• 2009 Active but acquiescent: EU’s Response to the Israeli Military Offensive in the Gaza Strip
• 2009 Lampedusa Mission report
• 2008 Economic and Social Rights of Migrants and Refugees
• 2008 Asylum and Migration in the Mashrek
• 2008 Violence against migrant and refugee women
• The Middle East Quartet: A Progress Report
• 2008 Justice reports
• Freedom of association in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
• The EU-Israel Action Plan within the European Neighbourhood Policy
• HR Review EU-Israel 2005-2006
• Training guide on human rights instruments
• Achieving Gender Equality: Change is Necessary
• ENP - Human Rights in the Lebanon Action Plan
• Gender Mainstreaming Presentation (2006)
• European Neighbourhood Policy Presentation (2006)
• Biladi Photo Pack (2006)
• Easy Reader to HR Review EU-Israel 2004-2005
• HR Review EU-Israel 2004-2005
• ENP - Human Rights in the Egypt Action Plan
• Barcelona +10 Statement (2005)
• Gaza Mission Report (2005)
• Civil Forum Luxembourg Report (2005)
• Israel's Human Rights Behaviour 2004-05
• HR Review EU-Israel 2003-04
• Tightened Spaces for Human Rights (2004)
• Justice in the South and East of the Mediterranean Region (2006)
• ...is there a real Human Rights Education? (2003)
• HRE Background Paper (2003)
• Migrant Workers in Israel (2003)
• Integration of Women's Rights into the Euromed Partnership (2003)
• Human Rights Implications of the MEDA Programmes (2002)
• Press Freedom in Jordan (2002)
• Equal Access to Justice (2002)
• Freedom of Association in the Euromed Region (2001)
• F-Type Prison Crisis in Turkey (2001)
• Refugees also have rights (2001)
• Marseille Civil Forum Report (2001)
• Guide to Human Rights in the Barcelona Process (2000)
• The Reality of Tunisian Prisons (2000)
• EU Mediterranean Policy: Setting Article 2 in Motion (2000)
• MEDA Democracy Programme (2000)
• Peace is not difficult: Trial Observation in Turkey (2000)
• Barcelona +5: What Results for Human Rights? (2000)
• Liberties and Human Rights in Tunisia (1999)
• Torture, Arbitrary Detention and Unfair Trial in Tunisia (1999)
• Human Rights Organisations in Egypt (1999)
• A Black Year for Democracy in Jordan (1998)
• Observation Mission to Tunisia (1998)

EMHRN Members

• CDF Syria
• Damascus Center for Theoretical and Civil Rights Studies
• Syria: Reveal Fate of Hariri-Case Detainee
• Syria: FIDH welcomes the release of Michel Kilo and calls for the respect of fundamental freedoms.
• Syria: UN Rules Dissident’s Detention Illegal
• Widespread judicial repression of Kurdish political activists
• Report on the fifth Individual military judge in Damascus
• Syria: Reveal Fate of 17 Held Incommunicado
• Syria: Flawed Court Resumes Prosecutions
• Report: Syria's Supreme State Security Court
• Crackdown on Syrian activists continue
• Syria must stop repression against human rights defenders