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We have won the Benny Andersen Award 2024! 

You can read more about the nomination and our work here

Our founder and director, Natascha Rée Mikkelsen,

held this year's Sankt Hans speech by the Lakes in Nørrebro.

You can read the speech in Danish here

AMNESTY REPORT ON THE UTTERLY CRITICAL SITUATION IN NORTHEAST SYRIA.

In April this year, Amnesty International published a report on the extremely critical situation in northeastern Syria, where more than 56.000 people are captured. Including; 30.000 children, 14.500 women, and 11.500 men.


According to the report, the conditions in the al-Hol and al-Roj camps are characterised by systemic inhumane and degrading conditions, killings, and widespread use of torture. Among other things, the report examines the unhygienic and life-threatening conditions with insufficient access to food, water, and healthcare that the 30.000 children live in. 


READ THE REPORT HERE (APRIL 2024)

EU: DENMARK SHOULD ACT IN LINE WITH INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS

In December 2023, the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions sent another letter to the Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, where they seconded RTC's appeal for the Danish government to act in line with international conventions, including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child, and ensure that the boy's suffering in the detention camp should be taken into account in any judicial assessment of the case. 


The letter comes after RTC's visit to Brussels in November 2023, where we once again raised the case about the seven-year-old boy who is not allowed to come home with his mother from the al-Roj detention camp to the European Parliament. 


READ MORE HERE (DECEMBER 2023)

NOW IS THE TIME FOR A GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN COALITION AGAINST TERROR

To defeat ISIS and prevent more children from becoming victims of war and extremism, we need to have a global humanitarian coalition in northeastern Syria.


Alongside RTC - Sweden and RTC - USA, RTC- Denmark has written a piece in the Middle East Institute about the need for a far more considerable humanitarian effort in the Kurdish-majority area in Syria. 


READ THE ARTICLE HERE (SEPTEMBER 2023)

REPORT FROM SAVE THE CHILDREN

The security situation in the al-Hol detention camp has worsened in the last few years. Up to 40.000 children live in the camp, where half of them are under the age of 12. They are daily in danger of being assaulted or killed. On average, three people are killed a week in the camp.  





READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE

READ THE REPORT HERE (APRIL 2022)

TWO DANISH BOYS AND THEIR MOTHER HAVE BEEN EVACUATED

In June, two of the Danish boys were brought home from the al-Roj detention camp after almost five years of imprisonment. 


The children were separated from their mother immediately after they arrived in Denmark. She has been their sole caregiver in the many years they were held captive in Syria. 


Due to this, RTC recommends alternatives to imprisonment and as much contact with their mother as possible to prevent further trauma to the children. 


(JUNE 2023)

EU TO DENMARK: BRING BACK THE DANISH CHILDREN

In May, RTC traveled to Bruxelles with the family of the seven-year-old Danish boy who has yet to be offered permission to return home from the al-Roj detention camp with his mother. 


Here, RTC presented the case on the evacuation of the Danish children from the Syrian detention camps in front of the European Parliament. 


The European Parliament's Committee on Petitions supported RTC's case and later appealed to the Danish government to bring all the Danish children home from the Syrian detention camps. 


READ MORE HERE (MAY 2023)

DANISH BOY IN DETENTION CAMP NEEDS ACUTE HELP 

The Danish Board of Health recommends evacuating the seven-year-old Danish boy without an offer to come home with his mother within a few weeks and, at the latest, within three months. 


They state that the boy has trouble with his breathing, hearing, and cognitive and social development. 


READ MORE HERE (MAY 2023)

DETAINED MOTHER GETS HER CITIZENSHIP BACK 

It was invalid to strip Danish citizenship away from a Danish-Iranian woman in al-Roj, according to the Danish Supreme Court in March 2023. 


As a result of this judgment, she and her two children were offered evacuation from the detention camp.



READ MORE HERE (MARCH 2023)

THE SITUATION IN THE DETENTION CAMPS WORSENS

Repatriate the Children - International advises all countries to repatriate their citizens from the Syrian detention camps and prisons. The situation in and around the camps has worsened significantly, and the risk of the children dying has increased. 



READ RTC - INTERNATIONAL'S

PRESS RELEASE HERE (NOVEMBER 2022)