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Original article by Finn Reynolds, the Canary, 17 June 2020 The Yezidi (Yazidi) people have faced over 70 genocides and mass killings throughout their history. Most recently, they were left undefended when Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) swept through Iraq, killing, raping, and enslaving thousands of the long-oppressed minority in what the United Nations described as a genocide. […]
Interview with Mohammed Baaqi, livelihood officer for the NGO Hevi. The NGO works with IDPs living both in camps and informal settlements. Mohammed Baaqi was interviewed 26 April 2020. My name is Mohammed Baaqi, and I am from the city of Sere Kaniye. I am a livelihood officer with the local NGO Hevi, and since […]
Sozda Ahmed is the co-chair of the Water Bureau for Heseke canton. She was interviewed on 8 April 2020. Right now, we are reliant on water being pumped from the pumping station at Allouk, but there is no guarantee as far as this station is concerned, because it is now under the control of Turkey […]
A logistics worker, a day laborer and a housewife from Hemo village, near Qamishlo, talk about the economic hardship they have been facing since the Corona outbreak. They were interviewed 25 May 2020. Suleiman Hussein Suleiman, logistics worker My name is Suleiman Hussein Suleiman, and I am aged 22 and work in logistics in Hemo […]
Though the United States and allied countries are working to convince Russia to reopen a border crossing between Iraq and Syria to UN humanitarian aid, Moscow could not only refuse but block aid through other points. Original article by Amberin Zaman in Al-Monitor, 20 May 2020 The United States and its allies are lobbying Russia […]
Lack of international recognition as a state has disastrous consequences on an area already suffering from war and displacement. Original article by Anya Briy in Open Democracy, 19 May 2020 The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), commonly known as Rojava, has illuminated the plight of the stateless—even though statelessness in the AANES’s […]
UN Should Reauthorize Assistance from Iraq; Damascus Should Allow Passage Original Article Published on Human Rights Watch, 28 April 2020 (Beirut) – Restrictions on aid deliveries from Damascus and Iraq are preventing medical supplies and personnel needed to prevent, contain, and treat Covid-19 from reaching two million people in northeast Syria, Human Rights Watch said […]
Una década de guerra ha dejado el país partido en tres, el sistema sanitario devastado y una población empobrecida incapaz de confrontar la covid-19 Original article by Natalia Sancha in El Pais, 02 May 2020 Una década de guerra ha partido Siria en tres: al noroeste la insurrecta Idlib, la autonomía kurda al noreste y […]
Published by Human Rights Watch. (بيروت) – قالت “هيومن رايتس ووتش” اليوم إن تقاعس السلطات التركية عن ضمان إمدادات مياه كافية لمناطق سيطرة الأكراد في شمال شرق سوريا يضر بقدرة المنظمات الإنسانية على تجهيز المجتمعات الضعيفة لحمايتها، في ظل انتشار فيروس “كورونا” الجديد المسبب لوباء “كوفيد-19” العالمي. ينبغي للسلطات التركية بذل كل جهدها لاستئناف توريد المياه من محطة ضخ […]
Original article by Stephen Delahunty in Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 25 April 2020 More than a million people in Kurdish-held areas of north-east Syria are being put at risk of a mass Coronavirus outbreak as Turkish-backed groups repeatedly cut off the water supply to a region in which health services are already severely damaged […]
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