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Syria: UN experts alarmed by attacks on Druze communities, including sexual violence against women and girls
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Syria: UN experts alarmed by attacks on Druze communities, including sexual violence against women and girls

August 21, 2025 Digest External News

News Digest: Automatically collected from relevant external sources. Not original Committee reporting or an official Committee position.

GENEVA – UN experts* today sounded the alarm over a wave of armed attacks on Syrian Druze communities in and around Sweida Governorate since 13 July 2025, with reports of killings, enforced disappearances, abductions, looting, destruction of property, and sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls.

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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 21 August 2025. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.

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