The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) is a non-profit non-governmental human rights organization that was founded in June 2011 in light of the systematic rise of violations of human rights in Syria. SNHR hopes to contribute to maintaining and defending victims’ right and consequently boost accountability processes, achieve justice and peace, raise the awareness of the Syrian people in regard to their civil and political rights, and amass efforts and capacities in the context of putting an end to violations of human rights in Syria. SNHR’s main focus is counting and documenting victims, detainees, and forcibly-disappeared persons on a daily basis in addition to documenting the daily attacks on vital civilian facilities and barrel bombs use considering the deadliness and randomness of that weapon. Also, SNHR works on documenting massacres against civilians in Syria, violations against media activists, deaths due to torture, medical and civil personnel victims, violations against women, children, refugees among other groups. SNHR publishes most notable daily news and figures, monthly reports that outline a monthly toll of each violation, and annual reports that contains a toll of the various violations of human rights by all of the parties to the conflict over the course of the year. Furthermore, SNHR publishes special, non-periodic reports that addresses a specific type of violations or more in Syria or on one of the parties that commit these violations, or the mechanisms and methods through which violations are practiced. SNHR also releases special researches on violations of human rights in Syria that expand on a particular subject matter by tackling it from a comprehensive standpoint. Additionally, SNHR works with a number of organizations to release joint reports that shed light on the violations against the Syrian people. Special Rapporteurs forms – particularly the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killing, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, and Special Rapporteur on Torture. Moreover, SNHR works on training human rights defenders, raise the awareness of the local actors on the international laws that govern the present situation in Syria, support negotiation processes on detainees between the different parties to the conflict…
SNHR is one of the most prominent sources for statistics on violations in Syria as the group provide researches, think tanks, and human right organizations that are interested in the Syrian issue with statistics and data per their requests. SNHR also provide media outlets with statistics, data, and eyewitness in the course of covering a particular development, in addition to providing local political and civil institutions with the statistics they request as well as international official institutions. SNHR is a member of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICR2P), a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, a founding member and an executive committee member at the Transitional Justice Coordination Group (TJCG), and a partner with the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. Additionally, SNHR collaborates closely with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, which was established by the United Nations Human Rights Council, and with a number of international human rights organization such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Al Karama organization, and The Syrian Campaign…. In addition to a number of local Syrian organizations. SNHR has representatives in the United States, France, and Turkey who works on raising the awareness of the civil society, decision-makers, and human right defenders, in addition to advocating victims’ rights by publishing documented information, data, and statistics. SNHR also calls for making every possible effort to fight violations of human rights in Syria, support accountability and justice processes, and amass efforts towards building peace.
