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• Status: Ongoing
• Thematic area: Human rights activism and monitoring
• Country: Syria, Israel
• Year approved:2020

Al-Marsad - Legal Services for the Syrian community of the Golan Heights

• Name of organisation / initiative supported: Al-Marsad - Legal Services for the Syrian community of the Golan Heights
• Start date: 1 January 2021
• End date: 31 December 2022

Initiative summary:

The Arab Center for Human Rights Al-Marsad is the only human rights organization operating in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. It was founded in 2003 to protect the rights of the population affected by Israeli occupation. For this project, Al-Marsad will be providing legal assistance to this community. Tangibly, this would include pushing back against ID revocation, defending economic rights, protecting property rights, etc.