Syrian American Council Joins Call for Syria Aid Reform

WASHINGTON D.C., June 20, 2019 – The Syrian American Council commends the recent Human Rights Watch report “Rigging the System: Government Policies Co-Opt Aid and Reconstruction Funding in Syria” and calls for the recommendations in the report – which endorses aid deliveries and reconstruction independent of the Assad regime – to be implemented. Impoverished Syrians on the ground and Syrian American aid organizations working to help them have long observed the Assad regime's cynical manipulation of humanitarian aid. Though the report reveals ugly realities, we call on aid providers to seize this opportunity to recommit to their noble goals of supporting the Syrians most in need.