{"id":102869,"date":"2023-08-17T07:41:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=102869"},"modified":"2023-08-17T07:41:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:41:31","slug":"north-press-hic-hlrn-appeal-to-un-about-water-crisis-in-ne-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/102869\/","title":{"rendered":"North Press, HIC-HLRN appeal to UN about water crisis in NE Syria <\/strong><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Monitoring and Documentation Department of North Press, in collaboration with the Housing and Land Rights Network of Habitat International Coalition<\/a>, presented an appeal to United Nations Special Procedures about the water crisis in northeast Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The appeal calls on the UN to intervene on behalf of the population in the region who are deprived of their right to access safe and clean water because Turkey cuts off Syria’s share of the Euphrates River water and also because Turkish-backed armed opposition, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA), control the Alouk water station, which is the main source of water for the city of Hasakah and its countryside and the camps in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The appeal considers “This case involves the violation of multiple overlapping individual, collective, domestic and extraterritorial human rights treaty obligations of the concerned states, namely Syria and T\u00fcrkiye. Specifically, T\u00fcrkiye is acting as an occupying power in parts of northeast Syria and using the closure of the Alouk water station as a negotiating tactic to use it to leverage negotiations with the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The appeal was sent to ten UN Special Rapporteurs. They are as follows:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n