'}}

From Peaceful Demonstrations to Armed Conflict: Considering Humanitarian Intervention in the Case of Syria

December 3, 2013

From peaceful demonstrations to armed conflict: considering humanitarian intervention in the Case of Syria

 

The current conflict in Syria has developed from an excessively violent suppression of civilian protestors by Syrian State forces into an allout Civil War. Beginning in March 2011, the conflict has troubled the conscience of the international community.

The Arab League, European Union, United Nations and States acting individually, have attempted to encourage an end to the violence through techniques of political diplomacy. This has included public appeals by State leaders and each of the collectives for an end to violence and reform of the democratic process within Syria.6 It has also involved both the United Nations and Arab League publishing resolutions condemning the violence, deploying monitors and submitting peace proposals [...]

Al-Marsad, Arab Human Rights Centre in the Occupied Syrian Golan

Majdal Shams

3 December 2013

Full report available here:  From peaceful demonstrations to armed conflict

Releated Posts

'}}
Al-Marsad’s Report to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Suggested issues for Consideration Regarding Israel’s third Periodic Report to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) To Be Held On November 14-December 2, 2011
READ MORE
'}}
Al-Marsad’s Position Paper on the Nakba and Naksa Day Protests
Al Marsad condemns the illegal, disproportionate and unjustified actions of members of the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) against peacefully protesting civilians at the United Nations Monitored Ceasefire Line during May and June 2011.
READ MORE
'}}
Al-Marsad’s Position Paper on the Israeli Government’s Decision to Relieve Illegal Jewish Settlers in the Occupied Syrian Golan from Paying Tax
Al-Marsad condemns the Israeli government’s recent decision to relieve illegal Jewish settlers from paying tax.
READ MORE
'}}
The ‘Economic’ Occupation – Illegal Settlement Production and the EU-Israel Association Agreement
Economic and political relations as between Europe and Israel have always been of a complex and charged nature.
READ MORE
'}}
Al-Marsad’s Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial and Discrimination
Suggested issues for Consideration Regarding Israel’s Combined tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth Periodic Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial and Discrimination (CERD) 25 January 2007
READ MORE