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2010 World Press Freedom Index: Syria

Syria, on the recently published 2010 World Press Freedom Index by Reporters without Borders, joined a list of the 10 most repressive countries toward journalists alongside North Korea, Myanmar, China and Iran. In Syria (-8) press freedom is fast shrinking away. Arbitrary detentions are still routine, as is the use of torture.The latest world press freedom index contains welcome surprises, highlights sombre realities and confirms certain trends,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Je...

Report Human Rights Situation in Syria during the Past Decade

The recent release of a country report on Syria by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies covers Syria’s human rights situation during the past decade under the rule of Bashar al-Assad.The report examines the arsenal of autocratic laws inherited by Bashar al-Assad and strengthened by new repressive decrees and laws. In the ten years of al-Assad’s rule, he has deployed them to silence every dissident voice and restrict individuals’ basic rights and liberties. These laws are always at the...

The State of Reform in the Arab World

The Arab Reform Initiative brings out an annual report titled The State of Reform in the Arab World - The Arab Democracy Index. The 2009 - 2010 report shows that the region has developed the institutional means to transition to democratic governments but has not yet universally applied them into practice. The Index, in its second edition, covers ten Arab countries with the mission to eventually cover all the countries in the Arab world. The study measures forty indicators to gauge four major...

Human Rights in Syria during Bashar al-Asad

This 35-page report by Human Rights Watch (July 16, 2010) reviews al-Asad's human rights record in five key areas: repression of political and human rights activism; restrictions on freedom of expression; torture; treatment of the Kurds; and Syria's legacy of enforced disappearances. The verdict is bleak.To visit the Human Rights Watch website click here and to read the report click below:

Kurds in Syria: Fueling Separatist Movements?

This report by Radwan Ziadeh published by the United States Institute of Peace examines the relations between the Kurds and the Syrian state. It traces the development of Kurdish political organization in Syria and the relationship between the Kurds and the Syrian prodemocracy movement, shows how the status of Syria’s Kurds has implications not only for stability within Syria but also for security throughout the region, and offers policy recommendations for the Syrian government and other int...

The Syrian Civil Society Movement

The Arab Reform Initiative's monthly Brief (December 2009) published an article by Wael Sawah about the role of the civil and the political in the Syrian civil society movement. With the beginning of Damascus Spring, 2000-2001, a new expression entered the Syrian political and cultural dictionary: the civil society. No sooner had this expression been introduced than a debate started about the nature of this expression, its limits and interactions. A question started to disturb a good number o...
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