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September 16, 2016
A statement from 101 Syrian, regional and international humanitarian and human rights organisations on Syria’s Cessation of Hostilities
This week’s cessation of hostilities agreement negotiated by Russia and the US could be an important and welcome step forward for the future of Syria. Countless lives are saved each day this cessation holds.
Now that Russia and the US have brought about a significant reduction in violence and a cessation of airstrikes, they must use their influence over the Syrian government, non-state armed groups and other parties to the conflict to ensure full and unhindered humanitarian access across the country. Besieged areas like eastern Aleppo, where 275,000 people are trapped and desperate for food, fuel and medical supplies, and Madaya, where there has been an outbreak of meningitis, should be prioritized.
Sporadic and temporary cessations of violence cannot become ends in themselves. The success of this agreement should not be measured just by a reduction in fighting. It needs to be accompanied by unfettered and sustained humanitarian access throughout Syria; an end to the forced displacement of communities as seen recently in Darayya; and a political process that addresses the root causes of the crisis.
Russia and the United States have proved for the second time that they have the power to silence the weapons in Syria. The lives of innocent Syrian civilians are in their hands. The brutal conflict and unlawful targeting of civilians and civilian structures such as hospitals, schools and markets cannot be allowed to recommence.
This cessation of hostilities agreement may provide a rare opportunity to move towards a negotiated political solution to Syria’s devastating conflict. We call on Russia and the United States to ensure that this opportunity is not wasted. The US and Russia’s counterparts in the International Syria Support Group must also stand up to their responsibilities to use their influence to encourage all parties to the conflict to respect the cessation, to monitor and report violations of the cessation, and to comply with their obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law.
Signed
- 11.11.11
- Abrar Halap Association for Relief and Development
- Action Contre la Faim
- Ahl Horan
- Al Seeraj For Development And Healthcare
- Alkawakibi Human Rights Organization
- American Relief Coalition for Syria
- Amrha
- Andalus Institute for Tolerance & Anti-Violence Studies
- Arab Center for the Promotion of Human Rights
- Arab Coalition for Sudan
- Arab Foundation for Civil Society
- Arab Organisation for Human Rights – Mauritania
- Arab program for human rights activists (APHRA)
- Association de Soutien aux Médias Libres
- Attaa for Relief and Development (ARD)
- Balad Syria Organization
- Bihar Relief Organization
- Binna for Development
- Bonyan
- Bridge of Peace
- Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies
- CAFOD
- CARE International
- CCFD – Terre Solidaire
- Center for Civilians in Conflict
- Children Plus
- Christian Aid
- Concern Worldwide
- Council for Arab-British Understanding
- Damascene House Foundation for Society Development
- Deir Elzzor United Association (FURAT)
- Doctors of the World UK
- Education Without Borders (MIDAD)
- Emaar AL Sham Humanitarian Association
- Enjaz Development Foundation
- Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor- Geneva
- Fraternity Foundation For Human Rights
- Ghiath Matar Foundation
- Ghiras Al Nahda
- Ghiras Foundation
- Ghiras Syria
- Global Call to Action Against Poverty
- Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
- Handicap International
- Help 4 Syria
- Human Appeal
- Humanitarian Relief Association (IYD)
- Ihsan Relief and Development
- Independent Doctors Association (IDA)
- Insan for Psychosocial Support
- International Humanitarian Relief
- International Supporting Woman Association (ISWA)
- International Rescue Committee
- Irtiqaa Foundation
- Islamic Relief
- Just Foreign Policy, US
- Karam Foundation, NFP
- Local Development and Small-Projects Support (LDSPS)
- Maram Foundation for Relief & Development
- Middle East and North Africa Partnership for Preventing of Armed Conflict
- Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
- Mountain Foundation
- Najda Now
- Nasaem Khair
- Nuon Organization for Peacebuilding
- Orient for Human Relief
- Oxfam
- Pax Christi International
- Permanent Peace Movement
- Qitaf Al Khair Relief Association
- Rethink Rebuild Society
- Saed Charity Association
- Save A Soul
- Save the Children
- Sedra Association for Charity
- Shama Association
- Snabel Al Khyr
- Society for Threatened Peoples
- STAND: The Student-Led Movement to End Mass Atrocities
- Syria Charity
- Syria Relief
- Syria Relief and Development
- Syria Relief Organization
- Syrian American Medical Society
- Syrian Education Commission (SEC)
- Syrian Network for Human Rights
- Syrian Engineers for Construction and Development Organization (SECD)
- Syrian Expatriate Medical Association (SEMA)
- Syrian Medical Mission
- Syrian Orphans Organization
- Takaful Al Sham Charity Organization
- The Center for Victims of Torture
- The Syrian Establishment for Human Care & Enhancement (MASRRAT)
- Tuba Dernegi
- Unified Revolutionary Medical Bureau in East Gouta
- Union of Relief and Medical Care Organizations (UOSSM)
- Union of Syrians Abroad
- Violations Documentation Center in Syria
- Vision GRAM-International
- WATAN
- White Hands – Beyazeller
- World Vision
- Zain Foundation
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