Report: Syria's Assad regime has such a tight grip on aid groups’ access to the country that it has become normal for relatives of senior Assad regime officials to have jobs within United Nations bodies.
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The report found that Mohamad Hamsho, a businessman close to both the army elite and the dictator’s brother Maher al-Assad, had won U.N. procurement contracts to strip metals in areas retaken by the government and rework them for sale at his Hadeed Metal Manufacturing Company.
.@UNDP contracted the “Aleppo Defenders Legion”, a pro-regime militia that forcibly displaced Syrians, to clear rubble and rehabilitate the city they helped destroy.
The UN did zero human rights due diligence when giving out millions of dollars in contracts to serial abusers.
The UN did zero human rights due diligence when giving out millions of dollars in contracts to serial abusers.
The U.N. is today one of the primary ways that money is going into Syria, and it plays a huge role in revitalizing the economy, playing into the hands of the Assad regime’s blood-soaked war economy.
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