Rethink Rebuild Society (RR) announces the recent visit of ‘Caesar’ - the former Syrian forensic photographer who smuggled over 50,000 leaked photographs including images of 6,700 bodies of deceased individuals, many bearing signs of torture, in Syrian regime detention centres - to the UK.
Rethink Rebuild Society hosted a screening of the film "The Intouchables" on sunday 22nd of January. The screening was followed by a short open discussion on ideas and emotions that the film provoked about our perception of relationships, difference, what we have in common, and what makes us humans.
Rethink Rebuild Society hosted a seminar about supporting families and children in need on Wednesday 17th January. The first talk discussed how families can access support via Early Help and what families can expect from such support.
Syrian Civil Society released a joint statement on the 3rd of January 2018 expressing its disapproval of the structure of the Russian-planned "Syrian Congress on National Dialogue" in Sochi.
On Wednesday 27th of December 2017, our Research and Policy Coordinator Bilal Shami appeared on TRT World News in an interview on the evacuation of the patients in Eastern Ghouta.
The interview is available on the link below.
Rethink Rebuild Society (RR) invited the members of the Syrian community for a familial gathering on Sunday the 24th of December to celebrate the holiday season. The event was an opportunity for networking among settled and newly settling Syrians, and for RR to maintain its close connection and relationship with the community in Manchester and the wider UK.
Rethink Rebuild Society (RR) convened a film screening event on the 20th of December 2017 to watch the movie 'The Long Night', a Syrian movie that talks about three political prisoners who are released from prison after a long time while their families anxiously wait for their arrival.
Rethink Rebuild Society contacted Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, the UK Permanent Representative to the UN, on the 22nd of December 2017 to express our appreciation and encouragement for his displayed solidarity with Karim, the 3-month-year-old baby that partially lost his eye due to Syrian regime shelling of Eastern Ghouta that also killed his mother.
Rethink Rebuild Society contacted the European Commission on the 21st of December 2017 to express our disappointment with Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides's failure to clearly identify and condemn the Syrian regime as the besieger of and main party responsible for the suffering of trapped civilians in Eastern Ghouta.
On Sunday 10th of December, the International Human Rights Day, Amnesty International alongside Rethink Rebuild Society staged a vigil to protest against the siege applied by the Assad regime on civilians in Eastern Ghouta, and the dire humanitarian condition of people trapped inside.