Terms
of Reference
Estimates indicate that anywhere between 5 and 10 percent of the Syrian population are
persons with disabilities (2008). Conflict situations
increase the vulnerability of persons possessing already a disability and raise
the number of newly disabled persons. That happens indirectly by breakdown of
social structures and services like family links and health and other
infrastructures the persons with disabilities rely on, and directly by
casualties caused by weapons, mines, bombs and other explosives.
The Syrian military operations against the Syrian
people represents a grave breach of the Geneva conventions of 1949, according
to international humanitarian and human rights agencies; these include the use
of banned arms against civilian targets and in densely populated areas;
extensive destruction of the civil property including hospitals, schools,
places of worship and the people’s homes while they are still in them without
prior warning.
