On the 21st of February, Rethink Rebuild Society attended a roundtable discussion held by The UK Department for International Development (DFID) with NGOs working on the humanitarian response to Syria. This was the second meeting of its kind with DFID, with the first held back in November 2017.
The Syrian regime is executing a horrific military campaign in Eastern Ghouta in which tens and in some cases more than a hundred civilians are being killed daily. We need urgent action NOW to stop these attacks on civilians. The Syrian British Medical Society has prepared a draft letter to be sent to MPs.
As part of its ongoing Conflict Café series, the Imperial War Museum (IWM) on the 17th February gathered members of the Syrian community as well as filmmakers and journalists, all of whom have experienced the conflict on the ground, to hear their personal stories and to ask questions in an informal setting.
Rethink Rebuild Society and Amnesty International Manchester Group organised on Saturday 17 February 2018 a free screening of the Oscar winning documentary "The White Helmets".
The screening was followed by a Q&A with the director Orlando von Einsiedel and Khaled Khatib, the Cinematographer who filmed most of the scenes, both on Skype.
The exhibition ‘Silenced Voices: Syrian Women in Assad’s prison’, organised by Rethink Rebuild Society, was showcased at Leeds University Union on Wednesday 14th February 2018 to raise awareness of the real-life stories of women who have been imprisoned in Syria since 2011.
Rethink Rebuild Society hosted a seminar on hate crime awareness in our multi-facility room on Sunday 11 Feb. The talks were given in Arabic by Rethink Rebuild and Tell Mama organisation. The speakers stressed the importance of recognising and reporting hate crime.
Rethink Rebuild Society released a statement pleading Britain and the international community to put an end to the escalation in violence witnessed across Syria over the past weeks. At a supposed stage of de-escalation, civilians in Idlid, Eastern Ghouta, and Afrin remain highly vulnerable to attacks from conflict parties.
Our Research & Policy Coordinator Bilal Shami gave a statement to the New Arab newspaper (in Arabic) on the BBC's coverage of the Syrian conflict.
Our Research and Policy Coordinator Bilal Shami published a blog post with international conflict-prevention organisation SaferWorld on the Syrian National Dialogue Congress, in which he argues that international approaches to resolve the conflict in Syria prioritise the interests of external actors and undermine a Syrian-owned political process for peace and post-conflict r
Rethink Rebuild Society hosted an open dialogue session on the 28th of January among members of the Syrian community in RR centre. The topic for this month was about the priorities of the Syrians in the UK. Do Syrians focus on establishing their new lives in the UK more or on helping their families back in Syria? What about younger generations?