Reports

Human Rights Council Forty-eighth session 13 September–1 October 2021 Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention Summary** In the present report, submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to its resolution 46/22, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry…

GENEVA, 14 September 2021 - The upsurge in fighting and the return to violence are cause for alarm, according to the 24th report of the UN Syria Commission of Inquiry released today, stressing that the country…

HIGHLIGHTS COVID-19 cases have increased across north-west Syria since mid-August, with more than 1,000 daily cases recorded in the past few weeks. Since June 2021, an escalation in hostilities resulted in 86 civilians killed and 205 civilians injured…

Summary Context At the start of 2021, more than two out of three Syrians living in northern and northeast Syria (NES) were estimated to be in humanitarian need, a significant increase compared to 2020. This amounts to 4.5…

Key figures 2.8 M displaced people in north-west Syria 43,511 Confirmed COVID-19 cases (4 September 2021) 1.7 M internally displaced people in IDP sites 37 trucks of UN assistance transshipped in August HIGHLIGHTS • COVID-19 cases have increased across north-west Syria since…

Amman - 9 September 2021 – A surge in the COVID-19 Delta variant in North West Syria is leaving health authorities overwhelmed, with only a dozen or so intensive care unit beds (ICU) left, putting children…

7 September 2021, The campaign, which was led by WHO and UNICEF in 44 Team Support Centers, incredibly achieved its monumental target of vaccinating 815,242 children under 5 years old across the war-torn region against Polio.…

Background and methodology The aim of the Emergency Needs Tracking (ENT) System is to track the key priority needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northwest Syria, as well as identifying communities with households in direct need…

6 September 2021 - With COVID-19 cases rising and hospitals in parts of war-torn Syria struggling to cope, there has been an urgent need to speed up the vaccination programme. This weekend over 358,000 doses were…

4 September 2021: The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, has concluded his seven-day visit to Syria, Lebanon and Turkey yesterday, his first official mission in the region since he assumed his…