Given our work in helping with flood efforts in Rochdale in December 2015 which received international coverage, we received an invitation to attend the Global Forum for Migration and Development Civil Society Days in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 8-10 December and to lead one of the panels on using community initiatives to tackle racism and xenophobia.
We gave a presentation on Syria on 7 December at Manchester Metropolitan University's Juris North legal discussion group. The audience included Law students and faculty, as well as individduals from other departments who were interested in learning about the issue.
In an interview on BBC Victoria Derbyshire on 2 December, we called for the UK's Royal Air Force to conduct humanitarian air drops on besieged areas of East Aleppo. We also highlighted our scepticism towards any Russian-led initiatives since they are the party conducting attacks against civilian areas in East Aleppo.
A group of Syrian organisations under the broad coalition 'Save Our Syria' issued a statement on 1 December calling for global action in conducting humanitarian aid drops onto besieged Eastern Aleppo. This was accompanied by a wider call to ensure civilian protection.
A group of over 200 relief and civil society organisations signed a statement on 1 December to call for urgent action on Syria by the United Nations General Assembly.
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