by jakeloeffenames | 17 March 2017 | News
The AWG’s main objective is the drafting of a “Manual on Best Practices in Strengthening National Mechanisms for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities.” The workshop convened 16 practitioners working in the fields of atrocity prevention and...
by jakeloeffenames | 8 February 2017 | News
Between 2011 and 2015, every week and often twice a week, groups of up to 50 people were taken out of their prison cells and hanged to death. In five years, as many as 13,000 people, most of them civilians believed to be opposed to the government, were hanged in...
by jakeloeffenames | 3 December 2016 | News
In the northeast of the country farmers lost 85% of their livestock as wells dried up and farm animals died. About 10% of the population saw their livelihoods wiped out. During the three-year drought, more than 1.5 million Syrians fled from their farms, migrating to...
by jakeloeffenames | 2 December 2016 | News
“Civilians are being killed in besieged east Aleppo on a daily basis and tens of thousands of them are attempting to flee the area due to intensified ground fighting and indiscriminate attacks by Syrian Government forces and their allies. This is inhumane and should...
by jakeloeffenames | 1 November 2016 | News
Recent reports cite the abduction and execution by ISIL of large numbers of civilians, the use of civilians as human shields and incitement to violence by ISIL’s leaders. There have also been reports of use of chemical weapons and collective punishment of members of...
