Civil Society Spotlight - Episode 12

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In the week of military escalation in Aleppo neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Al-Ashrafiya, civil organizations, activists, and human rights defenders have expressed their solidarity with civilians. While the events...
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After the fall of the Assad regime and the decline of Iran's influence, the residents of Deir ez-Zor woke up to a new distribution of power, something they had become...
“We want to be part of Syria’s future”

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Zenubiya’s feminist slogans are chanted both in Kurdish - jin, jiyan, azadi - and Arabic - al-mara, al-haya, al-hurriya. Aiming at reuniting women from all ethnicities in northeastern Syria, Zenubiya...
Biden won’t ease Syria’s grief

12 November 2020
Joe Biden is to become the next US president after Trump’s disastrous term—but for Syrians, there’s nothing to suggest a reprieve from the same heartbreak and loss of the past...
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