Çira Sor (Red Lantern) is a voluntary unbiased independent and unprofitable civil body that aims at maintaining human rights during wartimes and clashes according to international laws based on Geneva Convention.
It is pillared on providing help and assistance to victims of war , armed violence, and disasters. It was founded after a year and a half from the Syrian revolution with its catastrophic consequences : violence, torture and the destruction of Syrian cities, towns and villages and consequently the death of more than 30 thousand people in addition to thousands of missing as well as more than one million refugees outside and inside Syria.
Due to the expanding area of war and destruction, a group of young people in Kamishlo founded this body following the example of Red Cross and Red Crescent by adopting the same principles and goals which provide human services based on the respect of human rights.
Basic Principles:
- Decreasing the suffering of people and protecting them; enforcing principles of friendship and cooperation without any discrimination.
- Providing social and human services without any discrimination because of gender, race, religion or political beliefs.
- Providing first aids to the victims of disasters and war and taking the patients and injured to treatment centers.
- Taking part in fighting pestilences and improving public health as well as providing medical services, spreading health culture and constructing hospitals, clinics and pharmacies.
- Improving nursery and training nurses.
- Readiness in peacetime for facing wars.
- Not participating in any political, religious, racial or ideological arguments.
- Providing ambulances and other ways for transporting the wounded, patients and captives according to the charts of Geneva Convention.
- Visiting war captives and civilians in custody and mediating in their letters and providing shelter needs.
- Treating the patients and injured according to Geneva Convention.
- Spreading knowledge of human rights and watching the commitment to them as well as improving them.
- Communion with international and regional organizations and bodies interested in this field including /Red Cross and Red Crescent/.
- Communicating with the human organizations inside Syria for serving humanity and the principles of human rights during the times of war and peace.
Kamishlo on October 18, 2012
Email: cira_sor@hotmail.com
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