Impunity in Syria
Impunity in Syria (15 March 2011 - present)
Al-Marsad is currently drafting a discussion regarding the merits of a referral of the Syrian case before the ICC, pursuant to Articles 13 and 15 of the Rome Statute, to demand international criminal accountability for crimes against humanity committed by both regime and rebel forces (emphasising, among other factions, the Ba’ath Party and Al-Nusra Front).
Please check back soon for further information. Release: 1 August 2013.
Releated Posts
Al-Marsad, Al-Haq, and Cornell Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, September 2019 joint parallel report to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The joint report highlights how Israel illegally exploits energy resources – specifically oil, gas, and renewables – through common strategies it applies across the territories it occupies.
Al-Marsad, ACRI and Bimkom Host Community Meeting on Wind Farm Project
Al-Marsad - Arab Human Right Centre in Golan Heights ("Al-Marsad"), the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (“ACRI”), and Bimkom - Planners for Planning Rights ("Bimkom") held a joint public meeting last week to discuss the legal actions available to native community in the occupied Syrian Golan to block Energix Renewable Energies’ ("Energix") Clean Wind Energy Project.
More Shadows than Lights – Local Elections in the Occupied Syrian Golan
Al-Marsad has published a new report on Israel’s recent attempt to hold municipal elections in the occupied Syrian Golan (“Golan”). On 30 October 2018, Israel held municipal elections in the occupied Syrian villages of Majdal Shams, Buqata, Masada and Ein Qynia for the first time since it invaded the Golan in 1967.
Letter from Al-Marsad to Frederica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy.
In April 2019, Al-Marsad wrote to Frederica Mogherini to ask the EU to stop applying a double standard to Israel’s illegal settlement expansion policies and to condemn them uniformly for what they are, egregious violations of international law.
“New Ways of Seeing” Field Visit to Haifa
"New Ways of Seeing" Field Visit to Haifa - Al-Marsad, in cooperation with the Fateh Moudarres Centre for Arts & Culture, recently hosted a new interactive youth workshop within its innovative cultural project, "New Ways of Seeing."