SBC Statement – Cross-Border Aid Operations

Action Alert: Please download this PDF and e-mail it to your MP with the following covering letter. If you want, you can customise our sample letter. To (MP’s name) MP. Dear (Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms), As your constituent, I am very concerned about the humanitarian catastrophe that has unfolded in North-West Syria, Idlib province. The combined airforces of the Assad regime and Russia are relentlessly…

Members of Syrian civil society engage high level officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as key Ukrainian stakeholders, in Kyiv, to commemorate 10th Anniversary of Chemical Weapon attacks in Syria. On the 10th anniversary of the 2013 chemical attacks on Ghouta in Syria, and in calling for accountability for ongoing war crimes in Ukraine emboldened by the impunity for past and…

Happy International Women’s Day! On this occasion, we, in the Syrian British Council, are very proud to have three wonderful women on our Board and we take this opportunity to recall some of what these pioneering women have achieved. Samera Zeitoun Tayan: As a co-founder of Souriat Across Borders (SAB), Samera, with other Syrian ladies, dedicated her time since the start of…

In light of the horrific events exposed by New Lines Magazine and the Guardian on April 27, 2022, which show leaked footage of summary execution taking place in #Tadamon in #Damascus in 2013 at the hands of the #Syrian regime, and the breathtaking story of how two academics hunted down the perpetrators, the SBC hosted an online Q&A session with one of…

On Sunday, 16 Feb, SBC e-participated in a press conference hosted by the Syrian American Council (SAC) at Hydara Park in Reyhanlı. Members of many groups, political and humanitarian, stood together to support the Global Solidarity with Idlib showing solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrian civilians across the border in Idlib. SBC participated in supporting and telling them that…