Ben jij ook helemaal klaar met Faber? Kom langs, leef je uit en steun Team New Neighbours voor de Nacht van de Vluchteling:

INOVAS - the International Network of Victims and Survivors of Serious Human Rights Abuses - published these practical guidelines to ensure meaningful victim participation in transitional justice responses to serious, widespread human rights abuses: i-novas.org/new-guidelin...

NPR reconstruction and visualisation of how Israel killed 132 members of the Abu Nasr family in Beit Lahya, Gaza: apps.npr.org/gaza-buildin...

"European states should unfreeze asylum processes for Syrians, and allow those with pending applications to undertake one-off visits to Syria. Continued foot-dragging on this front harms Syrians, Syria, and European states anxious to see returns." aljumhuriya.net/en/2025/03/1...

Prachtig boekenweekgedicht van Sholeh Rezazadeh:

And again, I see international organisations and media refer to "the 14th anniversary of the war in Syria", or, worse, "of the civil war". No, today is the anniversary of the revolution. Today must be about paying tribute to the Syrian people's struggle for freedom and dignity.

En universiteitsbesturen vragen zich nog steeds af waarom leiders van studentenprotesten hun gezicht bedekken? www.npr.org/2025/03/10/g...

Google announced significant changes to its artificial intelligence policy this week. This pivot from refusing to build AI for weapons to stating an intent to create AI that supports national security ventures is stark, and it sparks serious human rights concerns. Read more: bit.ly/4gwYBeL

What did we learn from Syria? That we misread it, and condemn it to misery, when we do not listen to the people at the heart of it. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...

LI is happy to contribute 150’000 USD to the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) to seize this crucial window to advance accountability in Syria and calls upon other member states to support the IIIM in its critical efforts to end impunity.

RIP David Lynch youtube.com/watch?v=6Uoc...

"The blood may no longer stain the streets, but it will stain our memories. The bombing may have stopped, but we still hear it in our ears. The world may think it’s over, but for us, it is a continuous nightmare and a burden of existence."

The use of explosive weapons in Gaza in 2024 condemned an average of 475 children each month – or 15 children a day - to potentially lifelong disabilities, including severely injured limbs and hearing impairments, said Save the Children. www.savethechildren.net/news/gaza-ex...

Het huis van deze teruggekeerde Syrische rebel blijkt ingepikt door een Assad-aanhanger - www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... De strategie van het Assad regime om voornamelijk soennitische wijken in Homs te ontvolken documenteerden we in het rapport "No Return to Homs" uit 2017 reliefweb.int/report/syria...

"Future UN positions and actions must be informed by a full evaluation of the role of aid agencies in Syria since 2011. This process is essential for any principled organization to learn and improve." aljumhuriya.net/en/2025/01/0...

Ode aan het verdriet. Een beklijvend gedicht van de Palestijns-Syrisch-Zweedse dichter Ghayath Almadhoun.

"The danger now is that Palestinians die twice, once in physical reality and second in a moral one where the powerful diminish the very standards that shape the world as we know it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Het regime is weg, maar blijft Syrische families pijn doen. Vandaag is het lichaam gevonden van Mazen Hamada. Hij overleefde de martelkamers van Saidnaya al een keer, kwam naar Nederland, en verdween. De bevrijding van de Saidnaya gevangenis kwam voor hem te laat. www.trouw.nl/nieuws/syris...

Important information about the release of detainees from Saidnaya prison:

Five teams of the White Helmets are searching Saidnaya prison for hidden spaces holding more prisoners... My heart is with those who are waiting for their loved ones to be found in this man-made hell...

"Tussen al het diplomatieke geweld blijft de cruciale vraag: wat gebeurt er met het Syrische volk? Iedereen praat over Syrië, maar niet met de Syriërs." www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...

Amnesty International’s report demonstrates that Israel has carried out acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

"Syria was a testing ground for impunity, and failure to hold perpetrators accountable has had catastrophic repercussions far beyond our borders, emboldening perpetrators of crimes in Ukraine to Sudan to Gaza." whitehelmets.org/node/1666

I don't know how I missed this when it was first published... Check out this comic with a great introduction of the Syrian revolution and the role of the local councils:

Advies AG aan Hoge Raad: uitspraak hof dat Nederlandse Staat de uitvoer van F-35-onderdelen naar Israël moet stoppen kan in stand blijven www.hogeraad.nl/actueel/nieu...

Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health releases latest casualty figures of the war: Almost 4,000 people killed, more than 16,500 wounded. On Tuesday, the day before the fragile ceasefire came into effect, 78 people were killed. #lebanon

ING, ABP en PFZW investeren nog steeds miljarden in de illegale Israelische nederzettingen in de West Bank paxvoorvrede.nl/nieuws/neder...

📢 #JobAlert: Senior Programme Officer - #Iraq Through this #vacancy, you'll get to #advocate for the voices of #grassroots communities & advance victims’ rights! 🗓️Deadline: 1 December, 2024. Learn more 👉 shorturl.at/JRBLd

"Er vindt een volledige vernietiging van een samenleving plaats – de Palestijnen als collectief worden met uitroeiing bedreigd. Daarom schreef ik dit stuk. Als je genocide ziet, moet je het ook benoemen, en het proberen te stoppen." www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...

UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Today, in a landmark verdict, a jury in a federal court found a Virginia-based government contractor liable for its role in the torture of Iraqi men at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003-2004. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

Most of Gaza is now a wasteland of rubble. What distinction was made, and what precautions were taken, if more than 70 per cent of civilian housing is either damaged or destroyed? www.ochaopt.org/content/cond...

Vrijdag 15 November gaat de derde film van Eyad Aljarod, "Blowing in the Wind", in premiere op de IDFA. Tijden en tickets: festival.idfa.nl/en/film/b8a5...

Nadat de burgemeester en politie grote inschattingsfouten maakten, beperkt de burgemeester nu tot donderdag het demonstratierecht.