Al-Marsad and the Democratic Progress Institute (DPI) publish a new report examining the Syrian refugee crisis from a conflict-resolution and human rights perspective, focusing on the situation in Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan – who together have received around three-quarters of Syrian refugees.
The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Refugees, Conflict and International Law Read More »
Al-Marsad’s latest publication provides a legal analysis of the relevant rules of international human rights law and international humanitarian law – specific to civilians and civilian objects – that must be observed by all armed groups involved in the conflict.
Legal analysis regarding the targeting of civilians and civilian objects in Syria Read More »
The “Hermon National Park” plan confiscates approximately 82,000 dunams of land by the Israeli authorities, that has been used by the native Syrian residents of Majdal Shams and Ein Qynia since Ottoman rule for grazing, agriculture and urbanization
Al-Marsad submits objection to “Hermon National Park” plan Read More »
In September 2016, Al-Marsad wrote to the EU Delegation to Israel, EU Member State embassies and embassies of the Permanent Members of the UN Security Council, regarding the illegal demolition of a home in the Occupied Syrian Golan by the Israeli authorities.
Illegal demolition of a home in the Occupied Syrian Golan Read More »
The destruction of this home marks the adoption of a new systematic policy of home demolitions by the Israeli authorities in the remaining Syrian villages in the Occupied Syrian Golan. The Syrian owners of dozens of other homes have been threatened with similar action.
Israeli authorities demolish home in the Occupied Syrian Golan Read More »
The FIDH membership will enable Al-Marsad to interact with hundreds of human rights organizations, therefore increasing awareness of the human rights situation in the Occupied Syrian Golan, in particular, the systematic discrimination of the native Syrian citizens by the occupying authority, that violates their inherent human rights.
Al-Marsad becomes member of FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights Read More »
Al-Marsad calls on the international community to ensure an effective peace process to end the ongoing war in Syria. For more than 5 years, Syria has been suffering a terrible conflict that has caused death, destruction, gross international law violations in a seemingly endless and indescribably cruel chaos.
Effective peace process to end the ongoing war in Syria Read More »
Al-Marsad publishes its report ‘The Syrian Situation – International Humanitarian Law Violations and the Call for Justice’.
In June this year, Al-Marsad wrote to Google requesting that it amend Google Maps to show the names of the Syrian villages destroyed by the Israeli military in the Occupied Syrian Golan since Israel’s occupation in 1967.
Names of the Syrian villages in the Occupied Syrian Golan destroyed by Israel Read More »
In July and August 2016, Al-Marsad was in correspondence with Lonely Planet regarding its misrepresentation of the Occupied Syrian Golan as part of Israel on its website and guidebook: ‘Israel & the Palestinian Territories’.
