Updates
1 April 2026
When regimes collapse, they don’t just leave a vacuum of power, their cracks expose the wealth of those who used to be in power. The Architectures of Unjust Enrichment investigates, through a spatial lens, how private and corporate actors connected to Syria’s Assad regime unfairly accumulated wealth and power.
28 February 2026
After decades of authoritarian rule and mass violence, justice in Syria cannot be symbolic or rushed. Our research centers the voices too often pushed to the margins: Syrian women from diverse regions and lived realities, the very people who carried communities through war, displacement, and loss.
05 January 2023
PRESS RELEASE: Huquqyat’s investigation into the Events of Ali Al-Wahsh confirms War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
23 November 2022
Huquqyat members and legal investigators Mariana Karkoutly and Leila Sibai participated to podcast the “Syria Trials” on the topic of bearing witness
15 November 2022
Comment published in the New York University Journal of International Law & Politics on the US ‘Alien Tort Statute’ and its application to extraterritorial human rights violations
6 October 2022
Syrian women leading the change conference co-organised by Huquqyat member Samar Al Bardan
4 May 2022
Leila Sibai’s participation to Side Event The Manifold Impacts of Enforced Disappearance in Syria
13 April 2022
Mariana Karkoutly’s participation to the UN Security Council’s thematic debate on accountability as prevention in ending cycles of sexual violence in conflict
8 March 2022
Leila Sibai’s intervention on Tahrir Institute Panel “Eleven Years On: The Path to Accountability in Syria”
30 September 2021
Speech given by Huquqyat member ‘Mariana Karkoutly’ at the Swiss Parliament on 30 September 2021
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