Syria: Warring parties failed to abide by international law over hospital attacks

Apr 07, 2020, at 12:09 pm

New York/IBNS: Parties to Syria’s brutal civil war, now in its tenth year, failed to abide by their obligations under international law to avoid attacks on hospitals and other civilian facilities that featured on the UN’s so-called deconfliction list, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday.

UN human rights chief fears world has grown numb to Syrian carnage

Jul 27, 2019, at 06:38 am

New York, July 27 (IBNS): The relentless campaign of airstrikes in Syria has been met with a “collective shrug,” the top United Nations human rights official said on Friday, denouncing the world’s apparent indifference to the mounting civilian casualties as a “failure of leadership” by the world’s most powerful countries.