Original article by Nina Steinhardt, RIC researcher, published on Novara Media, In October 2019, the invasion of north-eastern Syria by the Turkish army and proxy forces caught the attention of the world. Humanitarian organisations, grassroots campaigns and state governments decried the invasion as a gross attack on the civilian population of the region, popularly known […]
Die türkische Invasion in Syrien am 9. Oktober 2019 hat ein neues Kapitel im syrischen Bürgerkrieg aufgeschlagen und neue Arenen für die politischen Machtspiele regionaler und globaler Mächte eröffnet. Da die türkischen Streitkräfte (TAF) und ihre Stellvertreter-Milizen, unterstützt durch Luftangriffe und Artillerie, über die Grenze vorgerückt sind, ist es dringlicher geworden, die Frage zu beantworten: […]
Una década de guerra ha dejado el país partido en tres, el sistema sanitario devastado y una población empobrecida incapaz de confrontar la covid-19 Original article by Natalia Sancha in El Pais, 02 May 2020 Una década de guerra ha partido Siria en tres: al noroeste la insurrecta Idlib, la autonomía kurda al noreste y […]
Published by Human Rights Watch. (بيروت) – قالت “هيومن رايتس ووتش” اليوم إن تقاعس السلطات التركية عن ضمان إمدادات مياه كافية لمناطق سيطرة الأكراد في شمال شرق سوريا يضر بقدرة المنظمات الإنسانية على تجهيز المجتمعات الضعيفة لحمايتها، في ظل انتشار فيروس “كورونا” الجديد المسبب لوباء “كوفيد-19” العالمي. ينبغي للسلطات التركية بذل كل جهدها لاستئناف توريد المياه من محطة ضخ […]
Original report by Hollie McKay, 29 April 2020 The next global pandemic may very well be a hunger pandemic as a result of the fallout from coronavirus. While the World Health Organization warns that stringent guidelines need to stay in place to combat the spread of COVID-19, fellow United Nations agency World Food Program (WFP) believes that […]
Original article by Stephen Delahunty in Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 25 April 2020 More than a million people in Kurdish-held areas of north-east Syria are being put at risk of a mass Coronavirus outbreak as Turkish-backed groups repeatedly cut off the water supply to a region in which health services are already severely damaged […]
Original France 24 Report, 22 April 2020 The spread of the coronavirus is especially worrisome in Syria. After years of war, the country’s health infrastructure has been all but destroyed, and millions live in camps with no access to water, soap or housing conditions that can allow them to practice social distancing. The Rojava Information […]
Nine years of war, systematic targeting of health and water infrastructure by occupying Turkish forces, lack of international recognition, and the January 2020 closure of the only UN aid crossing into North and East Syria (NES) have left the autonomous region at extreme risk from coronavirus. With the World Health Organization (WHO) refusing to support […]
Para contener la pandemia la Administración Autónoma del Norte y Este de Siria decidió imponer la cuarentena hasta el 23 de abril, cerrar escuelas y universidades y también el paso fronterizo de Semalka. Además, se han prohibido los eventos públicos y se ha puesto en marcha un programa de liberación de presos Original Article by […]
Syria’s northeast is left with little outside assistance to fight the coronavirus pandemic and requires much more international support. Original article by Amberin Zaman in Al Monitor, April 20, 2020 The Kurdish-led autonomous administration in northeast Syria has formally confirmed the area’s first death from the coronavirus while also taking aim at the cynical nature of the United […]
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