Synergy/Hevdestî Association for Victims in North and East Syria is a non-governmental, non-profit organization which aims to educate and provide a platform for victims to represent themselves and claim their rights. The need for the organization emerged following the Turkish military invasion of areas of Ras al-Ain/Serê kaniyê and Tal Abyad in North and Northeastern Syria in October 2019. Synergy was founded on March 11, 2021 to seek justice for the victims of conflict in North and East Syria, and to contribute to the process of accountability and justice.
The association chose the name “Synergy” (in Arabic Ta’azur and Kurdish Hevdestî) to reinforce the need for coexistence among the residents of North and East Syria, including the Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, Armenians, Syriacs, Chechens, Circassians, and Turkmens. The association’s logo bears the name in four different languages: Kurdish, Arabic, Syriac and English, and its colors reflect the diversity of North and East Syria.

The league documents arrests and enforced disappearances, in order to contribute to the processes of accountability, compensation and revealing the truth. The league issues human rights reports and press releases about detainees, and signs public statements with other organizations to unify the Syrian voice in international forums. It is also partnering with other associations like Caesar Families Association, Nophotozone  and Free Me, to create an international mechanism to coordinate and support the release of detainees and the search for missing persons. The league’s work is focused on the northern and eastern regions of Syria.

A human rights organization that observes and monitors human rights violations in Syria and countries of asylum.

Human Rights Guardians documents the names and numbers of victims of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance by publishing information about them on its Facebook page. It takes part in sharing lists of names of released detainees, publishes testimonies of survivors describing the violations they have been subjected to, and contributes, with other organizations, in the publication of reports on the structures of the regime’s prisons. It also provides psychological and legal support to victims and their families, and works to educate families about the misleading information they might receive during their search for their missing persons.
Human Rights Guardians collaborated with the organization Adopt a Revolution organization in organizing sessions on human rights advocacy on the cause of missing persons and educating families about the importance of reporting and documenting their missing persons. It also participated with the International Committee for Missing Persons in the campaign Together we Search for Them, to convey the voice of detainees and the forcibly disappeared to the international public opinion. It launched the campaign We are Your Voice, to support victims of enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention, to demand their rights, advocate for their families, reveal the truth and demand accountability that guarantees justice for the victims and their families.

A Syrian organization aiming to spread awareness and culture around human rights, and expose human rights violations committed against Syrians inside and outside of Syria.

The Human Rights Organization in Syria aims to spread awareness about human rights and document violations inside Syrian prisons, by issuing statements and reports alongside several Syrian human rights organizations. The organization also has a team of lawyers who take part in defending detainees before Syrian courts. The Human Rights Organization in Syria has partnered with more than 40 Syrian legal bodies and organizations to establish the Syrian Federation of Human Rights Organizations and Bodies in Syria.

Human Rights Watch is a non-governmental, non-profit human rights organization with nearly 400 employees worldwide. Its team consists of human rights experts, including experts specializing in specific countries, as well as lawyers, journalists, and academics, from different backgrounds and nationalities. Human Rights Watch is known for its fact-finding, impartial reporting, effective use of media, and targeted advocacy, often in partnership with local human rights organizations.

Human Rights Watch publishes articles and press releases about violations of human rights committed by the Syrian regime and all parties to the conflict in Syria. It issues thematic reports on the situation in Syria and especially on detention and enforced disappearances, based on testimonies of survivors and interviews with witnesses. HRW also sends researchers and fact-finding missions to investigate cases suspected of violating human rights.

I Am She is a Syrian women led network of peace circles. It works to promote peace, by strengthening the role of women and achieving effective participation at all levels (political, economic, social, and cultural) through and mobilizing society in order to consolidate the values ​​of freedom, equality, participation, and transparency. It provides training, technical support, carries advocacy, awareness campaigns and community mobilization activities in many different governorates and communities in Syria. The women of the peace circles come from diverse sectarian, religious and ethnicities backgrounds .

The network was established in collaboration with the “Civil Society and Democracy Center”, within the framework of its program “Women for the Future of Syria”, by forming groups of Syrian women called “Peace Circles” that aim to influence society within the foundations of justice and freedom. These circles form the core of I Am She.
The network organized several conferences, including its fourth conference on the detainees’ file. It also issued several statements during its meetings, which it referred to as “a space for cooperation”, stressing the importance of the detainees file and its direct relationship with all Syrians from the families of detainees and forcibly disappeared, and affirming that it is not possible to build a state of justice and law without a just solution to the issue of detainees.
In Turkey and Germany, the network held an exhibition of pictures of detained women. It also launched a campaign titled “The female detainees are beautiful”, which focused on female detainees in the prisons of the Syrian government’s forces.

There are many detainees whose names or towns couldn’t be known but they revolted and marched to support the Syrian revolution. This campaign is for them, to tell the world about them, to support them spiritually and politically by communicating with decision-makers worldwide in addition to Arab and international organisations to demand their release in accordance with the various human rights conventions and treaties.

I’m Not Just a Number is a campaign launched by the Syrian Movement Organization and the Syrian Youth of Hope. The campaign organizes online activites on its social media pages, and offline activities such as sit-ins in public squares, writing stories of detainees on posters, releasing doves, carrying photos of detainees, and holding candle vigils. The campaign also carries out creative advocacy activities in different European cities in cooperation with international organizations, such as Amnesty International.

An independent non-governmental organization that not affiliated with any party, working for the cause of detainees and missing persons.

The Independent Committee for the Rescue of Detainees works on documenting the names of detainees and missing persons in the regime’s prisons. Other organizations also use its Facebook page to share news, names and photos of detainees and missing persons. The Independent Committee for the Rescue of Detainees also helps families in knowing the fate of their missing persons by publishing pictures, names and the whereabouts of released detainees, and also publishes testimonies of former detainees.

The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic was established on 22 August 2011 by the Human Rights Council through resolution S-17/1. The mandate of the Commission is to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law since March 2011 in the Syrian Arab Republic and to present public reports on its findings. The Human Rights Council also tasked the Commission with establishing the facts and circumstances and to support efforts to ensure that all perpetrators of abuses and violations, which may include those responsible for crimes against humanity and war crimes, are identified and held accountable.

The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic seeks to carry out all necessary investigations to reveal the violations taking place in Syria by all parties to the conflict. It publishes press releases and reports on places of arbitrary arrest and detention, and issues periodic reports and updates on human rights violations, based on the testimonies of survivors of the Syrian regime’s prisons and interviews conducted with more than 6000 witnesses and victims. The Commission also reviews videos and photographs with the aim of explaining the circumstances related to the violations and identifying those responsible to ensure accountability.

ICTJ is an international non-profit organization specialized in transitional justice, that works across society and borders to challenge the causes and address the consequences of massive human rights violations. It works side by side with victims to obtain acknowledgment and redress for massive human rights violations, hold those responsible to account, reform and build democratic institutions, and prevent the recurrence of violence or repression.

The International Center for Transitional Justice supports Syrian civil society groups to raise awareness on the consequences of the arbitrary detention of victims, help them obtain acknowledgment of the harm they experienced, address these violations and hold the perpetrators accountable, by organizing workshops, conferences, and conducting targeted advocacy campaigns. ICTJ issues reports on how to strengthen efforts to reveal the fate and whereabouts of missing persons, identify human remains, and provide support to their families. In December 2021, and in collaboration with a group of Syrian organizations, ICTJ published a guide titled “A Guide Through the Untold Darkness: The Realities of Syria’s Disappeared, Arbitrarily Detained, and Their Families”.

ICMP works with governments, civil society organizations, justice institutions, international organizations and others throughout the world to address the issue of people who have gone missing as a result of armed conflict, human rights abuses, disasters, organized crime, irregular migration and other causes.

ICMP works collaborates with Syrian civil society organizations and family associations to work on the steps that can be taken to find missing persons and secure the rights of their families by creating a special database. ICMP encourages and supports cooperation between civil society organizations and families of the missing, with the aim of enhancing their ability to participate in the process of revealing the fate of missing persons, and ensuring their inclusion in any future peace settlement. ICMP also trains coroners and forensic physicians to locate the missing, know their fate and identify them, it organizes sessions and seminars to raise awareness among families about their civil rights and provides them with financial and psychological support.