Within the exceptional circumstances which Deir ez-Zor has been facing since 2012, schools and universities have halted accepting students. Education has become a big challenge for youths in this area. Despite the stable security situation that occurred past 2017, age…
Deir Ezzor governorate has been subjected to extensive destruction and thousands of casualties during the past twelve years. Casualties began with direct fire by the security forces during peaceful demonstrations against the government of Bashar Al-Assad. The number of casualties…
On May 10, 2022, Justice for Life published a field study titled “Citizen Participation in Local Administration” that examined the growing demands for restructuring the Autonomous Administration institutions and the level of local satisfaction with these institutions’ work, as well as…
Thousands of Deir Ezzor residents in the Autonomous Administration areas were infected with cholera, which began to spread at the beginning of September 2022, according to confirmations from medical sources affiliated with the Autonomous Administration. People with acute diarrhea and…
This report highlights the practice of enforced disappearances of hundreds of people in Deir Ezzor governorate. The report seeks to answer questions about those involved in enforced disappearances, the efforts of the relatives of those who forcibly disappeared to know…
Education has been a crisis sector since the beginning of the war in eastern Syria/Deir Ezzor in 2012, with most schools suspended from work and thousands of teachers displaced. Teachers were arrested, kidnapped, and dismissed for their political views. When…
Justice for Life organization established the “Deir Ezzor House for Human Rights and Democracy” as a cumulative result of years of work with the National Endowment for Democracy NED . The “House” aims to create an in-depth understanding of the…
The Autonomous Administration of Northeastern Syria occasionally emphasizes the demand for the expat card by giving instructions to its security and military checkpoints deployed in its areas of control, namely the SDF, to check the arrivals in these areas. The…
The governorates of Deir Ezzor, Raqqa and Al-Hasakah will remain exposed to more cases and deaths, especially among elderly and people with chronic diseases, because of limited capacities in northeastern Syria in terms of quarantine centers and care rooms, insufficient…
During one of the tense days in Deir Ezzor, a civil society organization in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor had to end a dialogue session at its headquarter after a conflict broke out between two local families in the…
On 25 March 2021, the Syrian President passed Law No. 13[1], which contains the new Civil Status Act, based on what was passed by the Syrian Parliament at its meeting on 1 March 2021. The law consists of (12) chapters…
In this report, Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ), in cooperation with Justice for Life (JFL), provides the details and circumstances surrounding the murders of the Joint President of the Tal al-Shayer Town Council, Sa’da al-Harmas, and her deputy Hind…
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) embarked on numerous raids and arrested dozens of people in its control areas in Deir ez-Zor province, located east of the Euphrates River, during the “Deterrence of Terrorism” campaign it first launched on 4 June…
International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law do not address the legitimacy of acts made by non-state armed actors, but rather regulate the effects of the conduct of these groups in order to achieve the ultimate level of civilians protection.…
What has been observed by JFL researchers on social media, media outlets, circulated messages, examples of key people in the 10 interviews, what some international documents have touched on, and the experiences of other countries, hate speech has serious implications…
There is renewed debate about the educational curricula in Syria, what it should include, and the extent to which the local community accepts it. International conventions and treaties affirm the right to education and protect it from deviations, especially in…
