Our Refugee Support Coordinator Amaf Yousef participated as a speaker in a workshop held by Refugees Welcome Merseyside in Liverpool on 27th February 2016. He shared stories and experiences that Syrians have had in Syria and in neighbouring countries and discussed how these experiences can affect their resettlement to the UK.
On 25 February, a group of over 200 civil society organisations submitted a letter to President Putin reminding him of his country's complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity. We called on him to stop bombing civilian areas and those controlled by moderate opposition forces and to leave Syria.
On 24 February, our Advocacy and Policy Coordinator gave a presentation on Syria and the responsibility to protect to Juris North, an academic discussion group based in Manchester Metropolitan University.
Rethink Rebuild Society was one of the organisations interviewed in an article in 'The World Weekly' examining the issue of civilian protection.
Clare Politics, Cambridge University Amnesty International and POLIS organised a seminar at the University of Cambridge under the title: "Syria is not a civil war: a personal experience" on Tuesday 16 February 2016.
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