UK human rights and humanitarian organisations have been campaigning for several years for the return of British families being unlawfully detained in Northeast Syria after the collapse of the Islamic State. But this desperate situation facing British families is becoming unbearable. British children, forced to live in detention camps, are exposed daily to violence, disease and squalid conditions that each day cause greater harm and suffering.
War Child, Reprieve, Human Rights Watch and Child Rights International Network launched a campaign urging the UK Government to repatriate the estimated 25 British families currently being unlawfully detained Northeast Syria. It’s time to bring them home.
Since 2019, at least 38 countries have repatriated or allowed home some or many of their nationals and in the last year alone, France, Spain, Australia, Canada, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands have done so.
