Help stop the bloodshed in Syria
Dear all,
Syria’s longstanding poor human rights situation has
deteriorated sharply since mid March with the rise of largely peaceful
protests, which similarly to elsewhere in the region have called for more
political freedoms, an end to corruption and increasingly for President Bashar
al-Assad to stand down.
UN: Rights Body Should Investigate Syrian Crackdown
Reject Syria’s Bid for Human Rights Council Seat
(Geneva, April 29, 2011) – The United Nations Human Rights
Council should strongly condemn repression of peaceful protests in Syria and
mount an investigation into recent violence, Human Rights Watch said. The
council is meeting to discuss Syria on April 29, 2011, following a request for
a special session by 16 council members, including the United States, South
Korea, Mexico, Senegal, and Zambia.
Copenhagen 29 April 2011. The Euro-Mediterranean Human
Rights Network (EMHRN) calls on the European Union to urgently adopt sanctions
to respond to the continuous escalation of violence used by the Syrian
authorities to repress the peaceful movement of protest.
Arbitrary detention and judicial harassment against Mr.
Rasim Al-Atassi Suleyman
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights
Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights
(FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent
intervention in the following situation in Syria.
Guided by the
Charter of the United Nations and by General Assembly resolution 60/251,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of
the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and relevant
international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, and that all States are bound to promote and
protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, Recalling Article 4 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights with respect to rights that may not be
derogated from under any circumstances, even in public emergency,
International crimes are being perpetrated by the Syrian
authorities
16th Special Session of the Human Rights Council “on the
situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic”. Intervention of Radwan
Ziadeh Damascus Center for Human Rights
Studies.
THE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC: A CRISIS THAT DEMANDS ACTION BY
THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Amnesty International has submitted the following statement
to the sixteenth special session of the UN Human Rights Council on the human
rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic.
Arab governments and the Arab League must absolve
themselves of OIC efforts to shield Syria from accountability
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, the Damascus
Center for Human Rights Studies, the Committees for the Defense of Democracy
Freedom and Human Rights in Syria, and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal
Rights, strongly condemn the shameful stance taken by the Organization of the
Islamic Conference (OIC).
Massacre of peaceful protesters in Syria : the
International Community must act
urgently
Paris-New York-Geneva, April 27, 2011 – While negotiations
are underway among the members of the United
Nations Security Council (UNSC) about a possible statement on Syria, the
UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has decided to convene a Special Session on the
human rights situation in Syria on April 29, 2011. “At last, the International
Community seems to be willing to consider its responsibilities towards Syrian
victims” stated Souhayr Belhassen, President of the International Federation
for Human Rights.
Security Council must refer Syria to the ICC
The UN Security Council must refer the situation in Syria to
the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Amnesty International said
today, amid escalating government violence against protesters calling for
reform.