After 12 years of conflict in Syria, enforced disappearances are still unresolved with no serious
solutions.
Syrian human rights organizations and civil society organizations documented more than 112,000
individual cases, while the International Center for Missing Persons estimated that there were more
than 23,000 cases of disappearance among Syrian men and women.
With the lack of clarity in the path of justice and accountability in Syria, and to ensure that cases
of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance are not overlooked in the paths of justice in
the future, several associations established by families and individuals of missing persons, with the
support of human rights organizations and civil society organizations concerned with the issue of
disappeared men and women, have been organized locally in countries neighboring to Syria and
diaspora countries to lead the advocacy process either inside or outside Syria.
The Newsletter of the Victim Support Project | Edition Number: 1
