Joint Statement

A new report by Amnesty International issued on March 23, 2021, documents the number of violations committed against Syrian refugees in Lebanon. A previous Human Rights Watch report estimated the true number of Syrians in Lebanon to be 1.5 million. The same report mentioned that seventy-four percent of Syrians in Lebanon lack legal residency and risk detention for unlawful presence in Lebanon….

We, in the SBC, are very proud to have two of our Board Members, the filmmaker Mrs Waad Alkhateab and Human Rights Lawyer Mr Ibrahim Olabi, alongside Syrian activist and former detainee Omar Alshogre, speaking in UN Security Council Arria-formula meeting on Accountability in #Syria on November 29, 2021. Their speeches emphasized the absolute necessity for the international community to spare no…

The Syrian British Council (SBC) categorically rejects all and any move that would enable the Assad regime to gain de facto control over the decision-making and transportation process of humanitarian aid within Syrian territory. The SBC reminds OCHA of the regime’s track-record of intentionally and actively manipulating and preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid to parts of Syria outside its control ….

On Friday, the 2nd of July, the Syrian British Council hosted a public webinar titled: The Future of Cross-Border Aid Operations to Syria, where our distinguished panellists provided an in-depth analysis about the humanitarian, medical and political ramifications on northern Syria should the Security Council fail to reauthorize the UN mandate for cross-border aid operations, UNSCR 2533 (2020). To watch the full…

Today, 30 January 2020, local groups such as the Response Coordination Group (RCG) have documented the displacement of more than 40,070 families( 268,298 people) from regions in the demilitarized zone, in the countryside of Idlib and Aleppo, arriving at more than 134 villages, towns and refugee camps, where RCG continues to count the numbers of IDPs arriving at different regions since 16…