Syria

Each time I travel to Syria to follow the plight of Iraqi refugees there, I also visit with Palestinians from Iraq.More

After Tunisia’s nonviolent revolution, on March 15, 2011, citizens of the small southern Syrian city of Duraa organized to challenge the government’s severe torture of 20 children, who had posted graffiti criticizing the government.More

I arrive at the Cairo hotel that is hosting Nonviolence International’s workshop on nonviolent tactics in the Syrian revolution that I will be attending.More

Over the last year and a half, an historic wave of uprisings and revolutions has engulfed much of the world and done more to legitimize the power of nonviolence than anything since the fall of the Soviet Union.More

On July 3, Human Rights Watch released a report exposing at least 27 Syrian torture centers. The accompanying press release noted, “The systematic patterns of ill-treatment and torture that Human Rights Watch documented clearly point to a state policy of torture and ill-treatment and therefore constitute a crime against humanity.” As preparations for Independence Day celebrations were underway all over the United States, this was a stark reminder about people’s ongoing struggles for freedom and dignity, and the brutality with which they are often met.More

In the midst of the growing firestorm engulfing Syria, Sheik Jawdat Said is on his way back to the land of his birth.More