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	Kurdish Human Rights Project
		Kurdish Human Rights Project is an independent, non-political human rights organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of the human rights of all persons in the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and elsewhere.
		Due to its expertise on the human rights situation in Iraq and its position as an independent, non-political organisation, KHRP was inundated with requests for information and assistance prior to, during and after the US-led war against Iraq in March 2003.
		11th May 2005 : European Human Rights Court To Rule In Ocalan Death Penalty Case
	www.khrp.org (1628 words)

	Kurdish Human Rights Project
		Kurdish Human Rights Project is an independent, non-political human rights organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of the human rights of all persons in the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and elsewhere.
		Due to its expertise on the human rights situation in Iraq and its position as an independent, non-political organisation, KHRP was inundated with requests for information and assistance prior to, during and after the US-led war against Iraq in March 2003.
		11th May 2005 : European Human Rights Court To Rule In Ocalan Death Penalty Case
	www.khrp.org (1618 words)

	COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS APPROVES MEASURES ON PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, OTHER ISSUES
		A Representative of Syria said the Special Rapporteur on human rights and human responsibilities was entrusted with a very important task and was known for his expertise.
		Concerning human rights defenders, the Commission condemned all human rights violations committed against human rights defenders; called upon all States to ensure the protection of such persons; emphasized the importance of combating
		A Representative of the United States said a resolution on this topic did not belong in the Commission on Human Rights. For that reason, the United States called for a recorded vote and would vote "no".
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2003/hrcn1045.doc.htm (1320 words)

	Kurdish Human Rights Project
		Kurdish Human Rights Project is an independent, non-political human rights organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of the human rights of all persons in the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and elsewhere.
		Due to its expertise on the human rights situation in Iraq and its position as an independent, non-political organisation, KHRP was inundated with requests for information and assistance prior to, during and after the US-led war against Iraq in March 2003.
		Fact-finding and trial observation missions play an essential part in KHRP’s programme to monitor human rights abuses in the Kurdish regions and to help to press for the rule of law and a wider democratic platform for discussion there.
	www.khrp.org (1551 words)

	Media's Take on the News: 3-12-03 to 4-24-03
		Saddam then crossed into Syria and was transferred by Egyptian intelligence agents to Beirut, according to Darwish and former senior CIA officials.
		Saddam's U.S. handlers even pushed Saddam to get his Egyptian handlers to raise his monthly allowance, a gesture not appreciated by Egyptian officials since they knew of Saddam's American connection, according to Darwish.
		The swift defeat of Iraq's armed forces adds another chapter to a long list of crushing losses for Arab armies on the battlefield, a situation that owes as much to outdated weaponry and tactics as it does to attitudes about the nature of warfare, analysts say.
	www.historynewsnetwork.com /articles/1046.html (1551 words)

	All book reviews available electronically, by Daniel Pipes
		Syria Unmasked: The Suppression of Human Rights by the Asad Regime
		Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf
		Iraq's Crime of Genocide: The Anfal Campaign against the Kurds
	www.danielpipes.org /rev/year/all (1551 words)

	KinsellaLaw
		"No socialist author ever gave a thought to the possibility that the abstract entity which he wants to vest with unlimited power—whether it is called humanity, society, nation, state, or government—could act in a way of which he himself disapproves.
		Bay also spins an intriguing possibility as to what Saddam Hussein might have done with the deadly weapons many believed he had—send them to Castro by way of Syria just before the American-led coalition invasion of Iraq.
		His magnum opus, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics is a comprehensive and systematic treatise on economics, social philosophy, and the social sciences, and the foundation for sound, truly scientific economics.
	www.kinsellalaw.com (1551 words)

	All book reviews available electronically, by Daniel Pipes
		Syria Unmasked: The Suppression of Human Rights by the Asad Regime
		Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf
		Iraq's Crime of Genocide: The Anfal Campaign against the Kurds
	www.danielpipes.org /rev/year/all (2962 words)

	TheInsider.org - UN human-rights report confirms Iraq is now worse
		A report to the UN human rights commission in Geneva has concluded that Iraqi children were actually better off under Saddam Hussein than they are now.
		Iraq worse human rights commission UN report children better Saddam Hussein post-war after American invasion occupation conspiracy theory.
		The Insider is a website dedicated to the thriving online conspiracy theory community, debating current affairs, revealing the truth behind conspiracy theories, exposing any cover-up, and reporting the secret agenda.
	theinsider.org /mailing/article.asp?id=1105 (2962 words)

	Community of Resistence once again faces threats from Colombian Government - International Crime and Justice - Indymedia Ireland
		Public Meeting: 'Before the Courts For Peace And Justice, Trinity College Swift Theatre 7.30pm
		Hariri's Game (part 8) "it was Syria who killed him to get their troops out and sanctions!"
		(IACHR) of the Organization of American States (OAS)
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=72570 (860 words)

	I CARE - Crosspoint Anti Racism
		Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen.
	www.magenta.nl /crosspoint/saudi.html (49 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Syria: Human Rights Developments
		In neighboring Lebanon, opponents of Syria's long-term domination of the country had their own hopes, calling repeatedly for reassessment of the lopsided bilateral relationship and return of full sovereignty.
		It was not only Asad's death but Israel's earlier military withdrawal from occupied south Lebanon in May that prompted and emboldened Lebanese critics and activists, particularly university students, to press directly and publicly for the withdrawal from their country of all Syrian troops and security forces.
		Amidst grumbling about the possible onset of dynastic rule in Syria by the Alawite minority, many nevertheless hoped that the new president would eventually breathe life into the country's civil society, stagnant from decades of one-party rule.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k1/mideast/syria.html (1633 words)

	Syria
		Syria Country Report on Human Rights Practices: 1996
		MERIA Research Guide: Syria under Bashar al-Asad (Lawrence Joffe) Middle East Review of International Affairs.
		Syria Special Weapons (Federation of American Scientists, Washington, DC)
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/Syria.html (145 words)

	International Crisis Group (Crisis Group) - Conflict prevention and resolution
		Provide assistance for civil society development and capacity-building and press Syria on human rights issues – including individual cases and measures such as lifting the state of emergency – and, in the case of the EU, identify mechanisms to follow up on the clause on democratic principles and human rights in the Association Treaty.
		While the history of the Muslim Brotherhood’s violent activities in Syria certainly is cause for concern, the available evidence suggests that the rise of militant Islam has been nurtured by a repressive, closed system that prevents free expression and association and has badly damaged the bond of trust between citizens and state.
		Syria’s foreign reserves should not be used as a pretext to defer reform but rather to put in place the safety net necessary to protect the population from hardships that will inevitably accompany restructuring.
	www.crisisweb.org /home/index.cfm?id=2516&l=1 (1181 words)

	OxBlog
		Both Colin Powell and the human rights community seem to agree that the leaders of the insurrection are a collection of notorious thugs and murderers.
		The human rights groups, in turn, are generally laudatory of the human rights reports, while using them as an opportunity to criticise broader US policy - see Tom Malinowski from 2002 here, or Amnesty from this year here.
		Although 41 years have passed since then, the state is still bowed under the yoke of the emergency laws, whose effect encompasses all areas of the life of society and citizens in Syria.
	www.oxblog.blogspot.com /2004_02_22_oxblog_archive.html (1181 words)

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		U.N COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS decided, in a recorded vote of 24 in favour and 17 against, with 10 abstentions, to postpone consideration of draft resolution (E/CN.4/2003/L.92) on human rights and sexual orientation until its sixtieth session.
		In favour (24): Algeria, Argentina, Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, India, Kenya, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Viet Nam, and Zimbabwe.
		As we cannot ask the gays in Syria if indeed they really have been threatened, we cannot present you with a concrete answer.
	www.gaymiddleeast.com /country/syria (534 words)

	The EU's relations with Syria - Overview
		The EU has protested against the arrests and convictions of leading opposition figures and human rights-advocates that have followed.
		Syria was a member of the UN Security Council for the period 2002-2003, and strongly opposed the invasion of Iraq.
		Syria was late in accepting the terms of co-operation under the MEDA regulation, launched after the start of the Barcelona Process in 1995, and only signed a Framework Agreement in 2000.
	europa.eu.int /comm/external_relations/syria/intro (2051 words)

	Syria - Amnesty International
		The CDDLHR had published an annual report on human rights violations in Syria and led a campaign for the lifting of the state of emergency, in force since 1963, which gives the security forces sweeping powers and established special security courts whose procedures fall short of international fair trial standards.
		The predominantly Kurdish areas of north and north-east Syria continued to lag behind the rest of the country in terms of social and economic indicators.
		He had left Syria in 1980 and was arrested on 3 July 2002 when he returned to visit his ailing father.
	web.amnesty.org /report2005/syr-summary-eng (2298 words)

	United Nations - OCHA IRIN Middle East News
		DAMASCUS, 26 Mar 2006 (IRIN) - The spokesman of a political opposition party was arrested in the northern city of Aleppo on Saturday evening and taken to an unknown location, according to human rights activists.
		DAMASCUS, 13 Apr 2006 (IRIN) - One in four married women in Syria is a victim of domestic violence, noted a report released last week by the state-run Syrian General Union of Women (SGUW).
		DAMASCUS, 21 Mar 2006 (IRIN) - When Sabah’s husband left her in Syria and returned to his native Saudi Arabia, he didn’t just leave his teenage daughter without a father.
	www.irinnews.org /ME.asp?SelectRegion=Middle_East&SelectCountry=Syria (553 words)

	Derechos: Human Rights in Syria
		Syria has recently made some progress by releasing hundreds of political prisoners in 1998.
		Actions from the World Organization Against Torture on Syria
		The government has failed to provide information about scores of people who were "disappeared" in previous years.
	www.derechos.org /human-rights/mena/syria.html (187 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Middle East and Northern Africa : Syria
		Qurabi, a spokesperson for the Arab Organization for Human Rights in Syria, was arrested upon his return to Damascus following his participation in two conferences in Paris and Washington that addressed democratic reform and human rights in Syria.
		The government of President Bashar al-Asad must put an end to the recent wave of arrests of activists in Syria, Human Rights Watch said in a letter released today.
		In 2002, the United States reportedly transferred Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian citizen, to Syria after having detained him in New York as he was en route from Tunisia to Montreal.
	www.hrw.org /doc?t=mideast&c=syria (1421 words)

	Threats Alienate Syrians From Lebanon ( The poor things....
		The presence of Lebanese detainees inside Syria was asserted by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in a report it issued in November of last year.
		But Syria's control has started to erode with its pullback of troops and intelligence agents a few days ago from populous areas to the eastern Bekaa Valley along the Syrian border, and many Lebanese are clamoring for their complete departure.
		Albert Cherfane, are being held in the Tadmor prison in Syria, a finding the group said it learned of during several meetings held in France between the committee and former Syrian political prisoners.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1366250/posts (2081 words)

	Human Rights Watch/Middle East
		The son of one Lebanese who was seized and "disappeared" in the early 1990s, and is believed to be held in Syria, told Human Rights Watch in 1997 that no one in Lebanon, including former colleagues of his father who now serve in high-level government positions, would talk to him about the case.
		Use all possible means, including linkage of aid and financial assistance to Syria, to obtain a full accounting by the Syrian government concerning persons detained and "disappeared" by agents of the Syrian state, and on a public commitment by the government of Syria to cease such practices immediately.
		The author dedicates this report to the "disappeared" who are still alive in Syria and to the families who continue to wait for Syrian government confirmation of their whereabouts.
	www.arts.mcgill.ca /MEPP/PRRN/papers/syria.html (13124 words)

	Open letter to the leaders of the free world
		As was announced by the Syrian journalist and human rights advocate, Nizzar Nayouf, more than 1500 Lebanese detainees have been buried at the "Tadmor Prison" massive gravesite, among other 17.000 Syrians, Jordanians and Palestinian victims.
		These innocent victims died in the Syria jails under torture and because of horrible medical, hygienic and sanitary conditions.
		Please take note that prisoners held inside the notorious Syrian jails, including Tadmor prison are giving different names and at times only numbers.
	www.gotc-se.org /statements/OtherOrgs097.html (630 words)

	SYRIA
		SYRIA: Torture, despair and dehumanization in Tadmur Military Prison
		Human Rights Watch Report about conditions and tortures in Tadmor prison
		The Story of British athlete “Hilal Abdur Razzaq Ali” in the Syrian prisons
	www.tadmor.8k.com /ENGLISH.HTM (116 words)

	FT.com / Middle East & Africa / Syria and Lebanon - Human rights campaigners add to pressure on Syria
		The Human Rights Association of Syria (HRAS), a non-governmental organisation operating in Damascus, announced earlier this month that it would launch several cases in a matter of weeks.
		Human rights campaigners add to pressure on Syria
		With Syria under international pressure over its presence in Lebanon, and amid a wave of agitation for democratic reforms across the Middle East, Syrian lawyers are now daring to file the first cases of torture against the state.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/0e285168-ad4b-11d9-ad92-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=de7348bc-8bf6-11d9-b97f-00000e2511c8.html (121 words)

	Politics of Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Human rights group Amnesty International says that hundreds of political prisoners are held in Syria.
		The judicial system in Syria is an amalgam of Ottoman, French, and Islamic laws, with three levels of courts: courts of first instance, courts of appeals, and the constitutional court, the highest tribunal.
		Six smaller political parties are permitted to exist and, along with the Ba'ath Party, make up the National Progressive Front (NPF), a grouping of parties that represents the sole framework of legal political party participation for citizens.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Syria (121 words)

	Arabic News Weekly Edition for Syria, 8/15/2005
		The Arab human rights in Syria said on Wednesday that three Syrian truck drivers are being detained in Abu Ghreib prison in Iraq since almost two months, after they were held by the American occupation forces on their way back to Damascus.
		Syria's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in cooperation with Areeba telecommunication establishment sponsored the marathon "Syria Heart of Humanity" which aims at supporting the Syrian prisoners in Israeli jails.
		Syria's President Bashar al-Assad explained on Sunday the current political developments which the region is witnessing stressing the validity of the Syrian vision of events and credibility of her analysis of the situation.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Weekly/Syria/20050815.html (1092 words)

	USCFL - Free Lebanon Now
		Syria is a serious violator of human rights at home and abroad, and has been on the State Department's list of Terror supporting countries, since its inception in 1979.
		Syria without the drug money from the Bekaa Valley; Syria without the million plus citizens in Lebanon sending money home; will be forced to deal with its real problems; a backward economy and lack of the most basic economic and political freedoms for its citizens.
		A Free Democratic Lebanon, with Syria forced back to its 'natural' size and influence, and a democratic reform process in the Palestinian Authority (without Yasser Arafat); these would be major accomplishments for PM Sharon, resonating throughout the region for decades.
	www.freelebanon.org /articles/a282.htm (1092 words)

	World News Watch: News and Statistics for Lebanon
		Lebanon is set to resume executions after a five-year hiatus today despite the objections of human rights groups and the European Union, which called on...
		Lebanon man and woman died last night and a firefighter was injured during a two-alarm blaze that drew 75 firefighters from six companies, police from at least...
		Lebanon is preparing to execute three convicted murderers in the country's first imposition of the death penalty since 1998, a judicial source said Thursday...
	www.world-news-watch.com /news/Lebanon.html (1092 words)

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