Middle East
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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
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PAX Policy Brief - March 2018
101 KBMake protection of civilians in Syria a priority
14-03-2018
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Siege Watch #8
3,599 KBEighth Quarterly Report on Besieged Areas in Syria August - October 2017
14-12-2017The latest Siege Watch report calls for immediate action to save Eastern Ghouta. The international community must increase political pressure to prevent Ghouta from becoming another Aleppo. Throughout Syria, 750,000 people remain trapped in besieged areas. The majority of those, more than 400,000, are in Eastern Ghouta, outside Damascus. Siege Watch is published jointly by PAX and The Syria Institute.
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Living under a black sky
726 KBConflict pollution and environmental health concerns in Iraq
05-12-2017‘Living under a black sky’ reveals how the conflict in Iraq has left a toxic trail of destruction which could have severe health consequences for communities and reconstruction efforts. Among other dangerous developments, the report identifies a sharp increase of hazardous artisanal oil refining.
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No return to Homs (Arabic)
2,595 KBA case study on demographic engineering in Syria
13-10-2017The report 'No Return to Homs' documents the government of Bashar al-Assad's strategy of besieging, starving, killing and transferring people from various cities and neighbourhoods in Syria. The report focuses on Homs, the first major urban centre in Syria to succumb to this siege and destroy strategy. But the same was done most recently to Aleppo, and before that to Darayya. Two other places under siege, Madaya and Douma, may suffer a similar fate.
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Siege Watch #7
3,787 KBSeventh Quarterly Report on Besieged Areas in Syria May-July 2017
18-09-2017As the war in Syria enters a new phase, and Bashar al-Assad’s government forces start claiming victory, this 7th quarterly Siege Watch report warns that an estimated 821,210 people in 34 communities remain trapped under siege. Siege Watch is published jointly by PAX and the Washington-based think tank The Syria Institute.
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Under the Radar
1,253 KBThe United Arab Emirates, arms transfers and regional conflict
11-09-2017The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is an active participant in the war in Yemen and regularly violates international weapons embargos in Libya, Somalia and Eritrea. Weapons exports to the UAE must be stopped immediately, concludes Dutch peacebuilding NGO PAX in a new report.