UN Secretary-General calls for Syria ceasefire for Muslim holiday
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and League of Arab States Secretary-General Nabil El Araby on Friday called on warring parties in Syria to stop violence and order a ceasefire during the Muslim holiday of...
The UN-backed Action Group on Syria generated an agreement on Saturday designed to aid Syria in ending the violence that has occurred in the country over the last 16 months. The plan outlines...
UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic said Thursday that killings in Syria likely amount to crimes against humanity . Simonvic addressed the General Assembly on behalf of UN High Commissioner for...
The UN Human Rights Council voted to condemn Syria on Friday for killing more than 100 civilians in the Houla region of the country last week. The 47-member body voted 41-3 to approve...
The Syrian government has released more than 500 prisoners detained during pro-democracy demonstrations in the last month, Syria's official news agency reported Thursday. The report indicated that the government released 265 prisoners on May 5 and another...
The UN Human Rights Council announced Wednesday that they will hold a special session this Friday to discuss the situation in Syria in light of last week's massacre ...
Most of the victims of a recent massacre in Houla, Syria , were shot at close range, including women and children, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) revealed...
JURIST Contributing Editor Chibli Mallat of the University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law says that there is no true legal distinction between liberators and occupiers, and that because it does not look like there will be a treaty...
Paulo Pinheiro, chairperson of the UN-appointed Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, on Monday told the UN Human Right Council in Geneva that the number of people suffering from the intensified violence in Syria...
Over 80 percent of voters in Syria have voted to approve the new Syrian constitution , officials said Monday. The proposed constitution will impose term limits on the president as well as provide for a multi-party...
