Statement on the Abduction of Women and Girls in Syria and the Need to Ensure Protection, Investigation, and Accountability

Statement on the Abduction of Women and Girls in Syria and the Need to Ensure Protection, Investigation, and Accountability

The undersigned human rights organizations express their profound concern over the continued emergence of reports and consistent testimonies regarding the abduction and disappearance of women and girls across different regions of Syria, and the possible connection of these cases to arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, human trafficking, forced marriage, extortion, sexual violence, and gender-based violence, as documented by United Nation…