"To survive in a prison like this you have to convince yourself it is your home" - Salem, torture victim from Al-Mezzeh Prison in Syria. Read the story: https://t.co/jBsR6pM0vi
We launched our 17th mandated report to the @UN_HRC today, which documents continued hostilities and lawlessness countrywide. These factors render safe & sustainable return of displaced Syrians impossible.
Report: https://t.co/fBrcMtKP0n
Press Release EN: https://t.co/rC1gyCwruX
A Refugee's Escape from Europe... Read the story about Maher from Syria, who survived 18 days in the wilderness, after a failed attempt to get from Bulgaria to his family in Turkey. https://t.co/hcuJOetGY0
#refugees#eupol#HumanRights#humans#war#Syrian
The past 24h Eastern Ghouta have been hit by 700 rockets by the Assad regime. Russian airplanes have carried out more than 120 airstrikes. More than 115 people have been killed and 500 people are injured. It is civilians who are targeted. Women, children and elderly. #SaveGhouta
"Ali suffers from astma and we can’t even afford to buy diapers for him. My husband can't work. He was shot by a sniper in Douma. - Lamiaa age 19 from Douma, #Syria. Now lives in a #Refugee camp in Katermaya, #Lebanon. Photo by @MartinThaulow
Elias Nasser a young palestinian in camp Burj el Barajneh. A camp located in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon. Since the Syrian war began this place have been over crowded by Syrian refugees. Before the population was approx. 20.000 people, now 50.000 people live there.
A Syrian graveyard at Bekaa Valley, Nebaa Faour close to Syria. Syrians are denied to bury people at the official graveyards. 800+ rest in this spot. Tombstone: Al-Fatiha, For the peace of the soul of the late child Mahmoud Maher. B. in Aleppo, Aug 20, 2011. D. January 1st, 2015
Kahled (14) lives in a shelter in a forgotten camp close to Syria in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. His brother Yehya (1.5 years) killed in an accident in 2016. The father died of cancer after they arrived to CAMP039. The mother now struggles to take care of Kahled and his two brothers.
https://t.co/wKyQOVy6wW We went to Lebanon to meet refugees, NGOs and volunteers at first hand from Beirut to the Bekaa Valley. In the months to come we will publish stories and bring focus to the current situationin a country where more than 1.5 million refugees currently are.