U.N. Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan discusses the devastating impact of illegal US sanctions on Syria and how they are continuing to block aid in earthquake recovery efforts. Professor Douhan explains how despite the US Treasury issuing a 180-day waiver on certain sanctions imposed on Syria, countries and humanitarian actors are …
Read More »SSM Statement on the Occasion of the Disastrous February 6 Earthquake on the Syrian/Turkish Border
Statement from the Syria Support Movement In the early morning hours of February 6, 2023, a 7.8 Earthquake struck in the vicinity of the Syrian Border with Turkey. At the end of the day, February 5, there were at least 1,700 dead, more than 20,000 injured, thousands more missing and …
Read More »US Says It Opposes Countries Normalizing With Assad After Syria-Turkey Talks
by Dave DeCamp, published on Antiwar.com, January 4, 2023 The State Department on Tuesday said that the US opposes other countries normalizing with the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad following high-level talks between Syria and Turkey. The defense ministers of Syria and Turkey met in Moscow at the end …
Read More »US Sanctions are Killing Syrians and Are a Human Rights Violation
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, December 15, 2022 Damascus is now bitterly cold and is soon to be blanketed with snow. About 12 million Syrians are facing a deadly winter without heating fuel, gasoline for transportation, and dark houses each evening without electricity. Aleppo, Homs, and Hama are …
Read More »UN Official Calls for Lifting ‘Illegal’ Syria Sanctions After Seeing Devastation First-Hand
Rania Khalek conducted this very informative interview for Breakthrough News on November 17. She talks with Alena Douhan about her recent trip to Syria and her observations of the effect of the U.S.’ so called ‘Caesar Sanctions’ on the Syrian people and the Syrian Arab Republic as a nation. These …
Read More »UN Rapporteur to Meet Syria Regime Officials, Assess Sanctions Impact
by Staff at The New Arab, October 30, 2022 This publication is hostile to the Syrian Government, but the fact of Douhan’s visit is important, and the fact that her stated purpose is to evaluate secondary sanctions and over-compliance is even more important. [Editor] United Nations rapporteur Alena Douhan will …
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