SYRIA: 'A War on Childhood'

This report looks into the devastating toll the Syrian conflict has taken on its children and young people. The paper explores how children have not only been left unprotected from the violence - in many cases they have deliberately been targets of it. The report also explores the International Community's failure to provide sanctuary and security for children caught up in the fighting, and looks at the legal instruments that are in place to supposedly ensure that children and young people are spared from the brutal effects of conflict.

“By the time we see the end of the conflict in Syria it will be clear that children have paid a heavy price for the right to live in peace, go to school, and feel safe in their homes and communities. Children have not been spared and it is particularly alarming the extent to which children have been directly targeted.” - Rob Williams, our CEO.

Download the Syria report here. If you'd like to lend your support to our project for refugee Syrian children then please give what you can to our Children of Syria Appeal.

Further Information:

• SYRIA: Lastest massacre leaves 310 dead, including 44 children (20 July 2012)
• SYRIA: 'Massacre leaves 200 dead' in Tremseh (13 July 2012) 
• SYRIA: Charting Syria's use of rape to terrorise its people  (12 July 2012)
• SYRIA: Torture Archipelago - Arbitrary Arrests, Torture, and Enforced Disappearances in Syria’s Underground Prisons since March 2011 (Human Rights Watch, July 2012) 
• SYRIA: UN human rights chief renews call on Security Council to refer Syria to ICC (3 July 2012) 
• SYRIA: Security forces and pro-govt militia sexually torturing civilians, including girls and boys (16 June 2012) 
• SYRIA: Opposition urges mass defections as death toll tops 14,000 (11 June 2012) 
• SYRIA: New massacre claims 100 victims (7 June 2012)
• SYRIA: Weekend slaughter of 32 children (28 May 2012) 
• SYRIA: 'Stop women and children leaving the country' (20 April 2012) 
• SYRIA: Rebels accused of using child soldiers (29 March 2012) 
• SYRIA: Authorities systematically targeting children (28 March 2012) 
• SYRIA: Whole city besieged to "wipe out pockets of armed terrorists” (22 February 2012) 
• SYRIA: Children severely tortured in detention (3 February 2012) 
• SYRIA: Assad denies responsibility for the killing of thousands of anti-government protesters (7 December 2011)
• SYRIA: Defectors describe orders to shoot unarmed protesters (18 July 2011) 
• More on children's rights in Syria