Advocacy

In furtherance of its charitable objectives, RR strives to raise awareness on issues related to refugees and immigrants within the British landscape through work on policy and media. Because of our daily work with Syrian refugees, we serve as a critical source of information on the Syrian conflict for journalists and through our professional relationships with these journalists we work on the framework by which refugee crises, particularly in Syria, are discussed. RR also organises seminars and hosts academic conferences that draw in leading academics and community organisers for discussion and insight on often overlooked aspects of the Syrian conflict and other conflicts in the region.
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Press Release: Continuing Regime Violence Despite Ceasefire

Thursday, 21/04/2016

Following the brutal murder to two students and one school staff (all known by our education team) in Idlib on 20 April by an Assad regime air attack, we issued a press release stressing that the ceasefire and subsequent political solution cannot hold unless there are guarantees for civilian protection.

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Press Release: Panama Papers: HSBC lobbies for Syria’s poster boy of corruption, then closes accounts of ordinary Syrian nationals

Friday, 08/04/2016

We issued a press release on 8 April in light of recent findings of the Panama Papers pertaining to Syria. These papers reveal that HSBC, which has long been accused of arbitrarily closing the bank accounts of Syrian nationals, lobbied to maintain the Swiss bank accounts of Syria’s icon of corruption, Rami Makhlouf, after he had been sanctioned by both the US and the EU.

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