UN: Create Body on Missing Syrians

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Activists and relatives of Syrians suspected of being detained or forcibly disappeared by the Syrian government pose with portraits of missing Syrians during a demonstration in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on May 7, 2022. © 2022 John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images (New York) – United Nations member countries should vote to establish a humanitarian body that will seek to provide Syrians with long-overdue answers about their long-missing loved ones, Human Rights Watch and over 100 other Syrian and international human rights organizations said today. The groups’ message…

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