Published : 08-03-2017
On the eve of the International Women’s Day, marked annually on March 8, AGPS issued a report titled “The Wasted Lives” and documenting the violations endured by Palestinian women in war-tattered Syria since the outburst of the conflict in March 2011.
Such violations include arrest, abduction, execution, body disfigurement, sniper attacks, and sexual abuse, among other violations that flagrantly breach international laws and treaties.
According to the report, 462 Palestinian women, amounting to 13,37 % of the overall death toll recorded from March 2011 to February 28, 2017, were killed due to war-related incidents, 33 among whom pronounced dead outside the Syrian territories.
Palestinian women have also been subjected to abrupt searches and exhaustive questionings at military checkpoints. Up to the moment of writing, AGPS kept account of the incarceration of 94 Palestinian women sheltered in refugee camps across the embattled Syrian territories.
33 female detainees were released from Syrian lock-ups, four among whom freed as part of a swap deal struck between the regime army and the Free Syrian Army.
Meanwhile, 61 Palestinian girls and women have had mysterious fates in Syrian penitentiaries.
The report further raised alarm bells over such violations committed against Palestinian women as enforced deportation, sexual molestation, and denial of the right to a fair trial.
The report called on all concerned bodies, nationwide and overseas, to urgently step in and speak up for women’s infringed rights in war-torn Syria.
AGPS further pushed for a serious action so as to unearth the fate of the female detainees and work on restoring their psycho-physical rights and social status without further delay.
AGPS also calls for taking legal action against all war criminals in Syria and for bringing them to court in accordance with the resolutions of the Common Article 3 of the four Geneva Conventions.
To download the Arabic version report, please click here:
http://www.actionpal.org.uk/ar/reports/special/wastedlives.pdf
On the eve of the International Women’s Day, marked annually on March 8, AGPS issued a report titled “The Wasted Lives” and documenting the violations endured by Palestinian women in war-tattered Syria since the outburst of the conflict in March 2011.
Such violations include arrest, abduction, execution, body disfigurement, sniper attacks, and sexual abuse, among other violations that flagrantly breach international laws and treaties.
According to the report, 462 Palestinian women, amounting to 13,37 % of the overall death toll recorded from March 2011 to February 28, 2017, were killed due to war-related incidents, 33 among whom pronounced dead outside the Syrian territories.
Palestinian women have also been subjected to abrupt searches and exhaustive questionings at military checkpoints. Up to the moment of writing, AGPS kept account of the incarceration of 94 Palestinian women sheltered in refugee camps across the embattled Syrian territories.
33 female detainees were released from Syrian lock-ups, four among whom freed as part of a swap deal struck between the regime army and the Free Syrian Army.
Meanwhile, 61 Palestinian girls and women have had mysterious fates in Syrian penitentiaries.
The report further raised alarm bells over such violations committed against Palestinian women as enforced deportation, sexual molestation, and denial of the right to a fair trial.
The report called on all concerned bodies, nationwide and overseas, to urgently step in and speak up for women’s infringed rights in war-torn Syria.
AGPS further pushed for a serious action so as to unearth the fate of the female detainees and work on restoring their psycho-physical rights and social status without further delay.
AGPS also calls for taking legal action against all war criminals in Syria and for bringing them to court in accordance with the resolutions of the Common Article 3 of the four Geneva Conventions.
To download the Arabic version report, please click here:
http://www.actionpal.org.uk/ar/reports/special/wastedlives.pdf
