Karen AbuZayd on Human Rights Abuses in Syria

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Karen AbuZayd, former Commissioner-General for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA) and current Middle East Policy Council board member, has recently been involved in investigating the human rights abuses of the Asad regime in Syria:

• September 12, 2011: Appointed to the three-person panel investigating the abuses of human rights by the Syrian government. This report was cited in the New York Times article “U.N. Count of Syria Dead Now at 2,600”: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/world/middleeast/13syria.html.

• November 28, 2011: Featured in a United Nations briefing regarding the investigation in human rights abuses by the Syrian government: http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2011/111128_Syria.doc.htm.

• November 23, 2011: Participated in the composition of an independent UN Human Rights Council report chronicling the human rights violations in Syria: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/specialsession/17/docs/A-HRC-S-17-2-Add1.pdf.

  • Middle East Policy

    Middle East Policy has been one of the world’s most cited publications on the region since its inception in 1982, and our Breaking Analysis series makes high-quality, diverse analysis available to a broader audience.

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