Syrian civil society organizations are working tirelessly to advance justice and accountability, document the Assad regime’s crimes, search for missing Syrians, and advocate for an inclusive transition process.
With the fall of the Assad regime, Syrians are working to rebuild their country and define their future. Throughout this transition, justice and accountability efforts should focus on four key areas: reuniting detainees and families, determining the fate of the missing and disappeared, documenting mass atrocity crimes, and establishing meaningful and inclusive justice processes.
For nearly 14 years, the Syrian people have suffered mass atrocity crimes as the Syrian regime attempted to silence their demands for a free, and democratic and peaceful Syria. Courageous Syrians, at great risk to themselves, documented mass atrocities and shared the truth with the world. While much about Syria’s future remains unknown, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's rapid fall from power this week has provided a glimmer of hope for Syrians that their dreams for the country may be within reach.
Syrian civilians are again speaking out in the face of sustained attacks from a government that violently suppresses criticism.
A community of 8,000 Syrians is receiving lifesaving supplies for the first time since 2019, thanks to one organization’s creative use of a little-known US government aid program.
The apparent creeping normalization of the Assad regime has deepened the trauma of millions of Syrians, many of whom have family or friends who are still detained or missing.
We spoke with Ambassador Michèle Taylor, US Permanent Representative to the UN Human Rights Council, about her family’s experience surviving the Holocaust and the impact that made on her human rights and atrocity prevention work.
Remarks by Naomi Kikoler, Director, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, at an event on Syria, held at the British Embassy in Washington DC.
Reflections on the horror of the 2013 chemical weapons attacks by the Assad regime on Ghouta and the many lives lost, and the numerous other attacks, using chemical and conventional weapons, launched on its own people by a regime, still in power and rooted in impunity.
Remarks delivered by Naomi Kikoler, director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, at the Embassy of France’s screening of the film “Bringing Assad to Justice.”
