Despite growing threats and limited representation, GCHR highlights how Syrian women human rights defenders continue pushing for greater inclusion and gender-sensitive justice amid a fragile political ...

After ousting Syria’s longtime dictator from power last year, ending more than a decade of brutal civil war, the country’s new interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa has pledged to embrace human ...

There lay the rest of her family—the men and boys. As I scroll through social media, many human rights groups, lawmakers, influencers, and celebrities are silent about what's happening in Syria.

From the United States to the Democratic Republic of Congo, women and girls’ rights have suffered serious setbacks. But despite the challenges, there also have been improvements and victories ...

Entire families, including women and children, were killed during the recent violence in Syria's coastal region, the UN human rights office says. A spokesman told reporters that the UN had so far ...

Syria’s new government has adopted a temporary constitution that concentrates much power in the hands of the interim president and retains Islamic law as the foundation of the legal system.

However, women have been marginalised by Syria’s new leadership. That’s a problem for Syrian women, of course, but it also puts at risk prospects for sustainable peace in Syria.

Syria issued a conservative new dress code Tuesday requiring women to wear burkinis or full-body swimwear on all public beaches, the latest cultural shift since Islamist-led rebels toppled ...

Since the war started in Syria there's been very limited medical care, especially women's care, so they didn't have access at home. And then they came over to Lebanon, where there's none either.

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad. Some ...

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad. Some ...