Middle East
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Violations of Housing, Land and Property Rights: An Obstacle to Peace in Syria
1,436 KBWhat can International Policymakers do?
10-03-2020
There is also an arabic version of this policy brief.
This policy brief outlines the systematic undermining of Syrians’ housing, land and property (HLP) rights, mainly but not exclusively by the Assad regime, which since 2011 has enacted a raft of measures to consolidate its control by dispossessing groups or communities it considers a threat to its authority. Other groups with a long history of suffering discrimination in property rights – such as women, Palestinian refugees, and the Kurdish minority – stand to be disproportionately affected. -
ISIS-only tribunal: selective, politicised justice will do more harm than good
925 KB01-11-2019Amidst heightened fears that ISIS fighters could escape captivity in north-eastern Syria as a result of the Turkish incursion into the region, powerful European states are pressing ahead with attempts to wash their hands of their own citizens with ISIS ties by establishing a hybrid tribunal or similar mechanism limited to trying ISIS-affiliated perpetrators of international crimes in Iraq, and possibly also Syria. Such a tribunal would leave victims’ needs unmet, threaten prospects for reconciliation in Iraq and Syria, and risk further undermining already fragile trust in international justice.
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Divided and Divisive
1,039 KBEuropeans, Israel and Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking
16-05-2019Divided and Divisive analyses the current dynamics of the relations between the European Union and Israel and offers recommendations for a sustainable solution to the conflict. It is the result of a research project carried out by Mitvim and SWP in cooperation with PAX.
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Socioeconomic Impact of Displacement Waves in Northern Syria
686 KB16-05-2019In this report, research organization IMPACT, with the support of 11.11.11 and PAX, sounds the alarm on the situation in Afrin, Northwest Syria. The report calls for urgent Turkish and European action to stabilize the rapidly deteriorating situation in the area.
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Day of Judgment
7,294 KBThe Role of the US and Europe in Civilian Death, Destruction, and Trauma in Yemen
06-03-2019A joint effort by Yemen-based Mwatana for Human Rights, the US-based University Network for Human Rights, and PAX, this report documents the role of US and European weapons in the Saudi/UAE-led Coalition’s ongoing military campaign in Yemen.
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Siege Watch Final Report
1,260 KBOut of Sight, Out of Mind: the Aftermath of Syria’s Sieges
06-03-2019The final Siege Watch report offers a summary of six years of sieges and considers the current needs of the victims. The report also draws conclusions about the strategy of sieges, and offers recommendations – both about what to do now to help the victims, but also what the international community can do in the future to protect civilians.
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Siege Watch #10 part 2
4,445 KBTenth Quarterly Report Part 2 – The Culmination of “Surrender or Die” February–May 2018
17-09-2018The tenth quarterly Siege Watch report (part 2) focuses on developments in northern Homs and the southern Damascus suburbs from February till May 2018. During this period both besieged enclaves surrendered to the Syrian government, marking the end of the government’s “surrender or die” campaign against Syrian civilians.
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Siege Watch #10 part 1
12,805 KBTenth Quarterly Report Part 1 - Eastern Ghouta February–April 2018
25-06-2018The tenth quarterly Siege Watch report (part 1) describes the final offensive against Eastern Ghouta, between February and April 2018, in which at least 1,700 people were killed, 5,000 injured and 158,000 displaced.
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Fragmented Jerusalem
6,269 KBMunicipal Borders, Demographic Politics and Daily Realities in East Jerusalem
30-04-2018
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Siege Watch #9
4,898 KB19-3-2018 Ninth Quarterly Report on Besieged Areas in Syria November 2017 - January 2018
19-03-2018