Interim oral update to the General Assembly on the UNSG Study on Missing Persons in Syria – Syrian Arab Republic
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 8, 2022
DELIVERED BYMichelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
ATthe General Assembly
Distinguished President,Excellencies,Colleagues and friends,
In the words of a Syrian woman human rights defender: "Every day of delay puts more victims in danger, and with each day that passes with no action we lose more detainees, who are dying in detention."
The quest for determining the whereabouts and fate of Syria's missing persons, including those forcibly disappeared, abducted, and those arbitrarily detained, is emblematic of the . . .
