ٍSyria: Over 100 Organizations, History will Judge Leaders for Response to UN convoy Attack in Syria

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Bedna Horeya SyriaHistory will Judge Leaders for Response to UN convoy Attack in Syria

A statement by 108 Syrian, regional and international humanitarian and human rights organisations on Monday’s attack on a humanitarian convoy in Aleppo

 

Monday’s direct attack on a humanitarian convoy delivering life-saving aid to Aleppo marks a descent to new depths of inhumanity. As world leaders gather this week in New York, the world’s eyes are on them and history will judge their response to this criminal act.

Deliberate attacks on humanitarian workers and civilians are war crimes. This must mark a turning point: the UN Security Council cannot allow increasingly brazen violations of international humanitarian law to continue with impunity.

Heads of state are gathered in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly. Each one that accepts a lack of accountability for perpetrators and facilitators of war crimes colludes in the ongoing dissolution of international humanitarian law. These are the laws that project a common vision of humanity across the globe. They protect us all: to lose them would be to forget the lessons of both world wars and return to a time of darkness and anarchy.

Witnesses interviewed by Amnesty International said a variety of aircraft, including helicopters and Russian-made fighter jets, took part in the bombardment. We call on the Security Council immediately to request the UN Secretary-General to launch a swift investigation –  and report back to the Security Council within a week – in order to identify the perpetrators definitively and make recommendations on holding them to account under international law. Those who commit such crimes must understand that they cannot continue to do so with impunity.

For five years, we have seen leaders repeatedly condemn the widespread violations of human rights and international humanitarian law by parties to the conflict in Syria. Yet they fail time and time again to hold perpetrators to account. Over and over again, the world has watched while civilians are deliberately killed and starved, hospitals are bombed and aid workers are attacked. What further horrors will Syrians to be subjected to before we reach another red line?

Signed by:

  1. Abrar Halap Association for Relief and Development
  2. Action Aid International
  3. Ahl Horan
  4. Al Seeraj For Development And Healthcare
  5. Amrha
  6. ASML – Association de Soutien aux Médias Libres
  7. Association for Aid and Relief (AAR), Japan
  8. Attaa Association
  9. Attaa for Relief and Development (ARD)
  10. Balad Syria Organization
  11. Basmet Amal Charity
  12. Baytna Syria
  13. Big Heart Foundation
  14. Bihar Relief Organization
  15. Binaa Organization for Development
  16. Bonyan
  17. Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)
  18. CARE International
  19. Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC)
  20. Center for Victims of Torture
  21. Christian Aid
  22. Collateral Repair Project
  23. Collectif des Amis d’Alep
  24. Comité d’Aide Humanitaire au Peuple Syrien – ComSyr57
  25. Damascene House Foundation for Society Development
  26. Deir Elzzor United Association (FURAT)
  27. Dorcas
  28. Education Without Borders (MIDAD)
  29. Emaar AL Sham Humanitarian Association
  30. Enjaz Development Foundation
  31. ETM
  32. EuroMed Rights EMHRN
  33. Ghiath Matar Foundation
  34. Ghiras Al Nahda
  35. Ghiras Foundation
  36. Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
  37. GOAL
  38. Hand in Hand for Syria
  39. Help 4 Syria
  40. Human Care Syria
  41. Human Rights & Democracy Media Center (SHAMS)
  42. Humanitarian Relief Association (IYD)
  43. International Rescue Committee
  44. Ihsan for Relief and Development
  45. iMMAP
  46. Independent Doctors Association (IDA)
  47. Insan for Psychosocial Support
  48. International Supporting Woman Association (ISWA)
  49. Irtiqaa Foundation
  50. Karam Foundation
  51. La Vague Blanche pour la Syrie
  52. Local Development and Small-Projects Support (LDSPS).
  53. Maram Foundation for Relief & Development
  54. Masrrat – The Syrian Establishment for Human Care and Enhancement
  55. Mercy Corps
  56. Mountain Foundation
  57. MRAP – Mouvement contre le Racisme et l’Amitié entre les Peuples
  58. Najda Now
  59. Nasaem Khair
  60. Norwegian Refugee Council
  61. NuDay Syria
  62. Orient
  63. Oxfam
  64. People in Need
  65. Physicians Across Continents (PAC)
  66. Physicians for Human Rights
  67. Protection Approaches
  68. Qatar Red Crescent Society
  69. Qitaf Al Khair Relief Association
  70. Saed Charity Association
  71. Save A Soul
  72. Save the Children
  73. Secours Islamique France
  74. Sedra Association For Charity
  75. Shama Association
  76. Sanabel Al Khair
  77. Social Development International (SDI)
  78. Solidarité Saintonge Syrie
  79. Solidarités International
  80. SUDO UK
  81. SUHA – Urgence Solidarité Syrie
  82. Syria Charity
  83. Syrian Expatriate Medical Association (SEMA)
  84. Syria Relief
  85. Syria Relief
  86. Syria Relief and Development
  87. Syria Relief Organization
  88. Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS)
  89. Syrian Education Commission (SEC)
  90. Syrian Engineers For Construction and Development Organization (SECD)
  91. Syrian Expatriate Medical Association (SEMA)
  92. Syrian Institute for Justice
  93. Syrian Medical Mission
  94. Syrian Network for Human Rights
  95. Syrian NGO Alliance (SNA)
  96. Syrian Orphans Organization
  97. Takaful Alsham Charity Organisation
  98. Tuba Dernegi
  99. Unified Revolutionary Medical Bureau in East Gouta
  100. Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations (UOSSM)
  101. Union Of Syrians Abroad
  102. Violations Documentation Center in Syria (VDC)
  103. Violet Organisation
  104. War Child Holland
  105. White Hands – Beyazeller
  106. Win Without War
  107. Women for Development
  108. World Vision

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