The human rights treatment and the role of the international community in the Syrian war

Karovska Andonovska, Biljana (2019) The human rights treatment and the role of the international community in the Syrian war. International Yearbook Faculty of Security. ISSN 1857-6508

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Abstract

This paper is focused on the treatment of human rights during the devastating civil war in Syria, which has been witnessed by the entire international community for almost ten years. This war has opened many questions regarding violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, which probably will be debated for a long time. In order to make a contribution to this debate, we made an overview of the content of the official reports in which the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry since 2011 has noticed the facts regarding the humanitarian catastrophe in Syria. The overview follows the chronology which reflects two paradoxes: 1. Increasing the intensity of the violence and the violations of the rules of war,
throughout the years; 2. The inability of the international community and the United Nations through its mechanisms to deal with the challenge it faced during this war.
All those reports reflect the terrible situation with human rights violations, which is almost unprecedented in recent contemporary wars. International efforts for finding solution for this situation had limited success, pertaining solely to the destruction of the Syrian chemical weapons program. However, there has been little success in preventing war crimes, and at least so far, in locating responsibility thereof.
Hence, the aim of this paper is to highlight the cruelty and meaninglessly long duration of the Syrian civil war which will be remembered as a proxy war, violating everything the
international community has built so far as standards of humane behavior in war conditions.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Social Sciences > Law
Divisions:	Military Academy
Depositing User:	Biljana Karovska Andonovska
Date Deposited:	26 Jan 2023 20:09
Last Modified:	26 Jan 2023 20:09
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/30878

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