For almost a year, the Druze of Sweida and other Syrian minorities have faced systematic and orchestrated presecution, violence, and displacement. Entire communities have been targeted with killings, kidnappings, and assaults, with women and children bearing the heaviest toll. These crimes are not isolated, they form part of a wider pattern of oppression that now amounts to genocide, aimed at erasing the cultural, religious, and social existence of these groups. The world’s silence has only deepened their suffering.

In mid-July 2025, during violent clashes in Suwayda, around 293 Druze women were kidnapped .

Of them, 42 were released, and 2 are still held in Adra Prison in Damascus without trial .

14 women were killed after being kidnapped, and the fate of 235 women remains unknown .

The UN reported at least 105 Druze women and girls abducted, with more than 80 still missing .

UN experts have also raised alarm about systematic attacks on Druze communities, including sexual violence and abductions since mid-July 2025 .

So we, the undersigned, call upon the international community, human rights organisations, and world leaders to stand with the peaceful people of Sweida, the Druze, and all minority groups in Syria. For too long, these communities have endured violence, oppression, and neglect by armed gangs and militias, the Syrian transitional regime and allied forces, as well as other extremist factions. They have long been subjected to targeted presecution, genocide and ethnic cleansing. Dozens of women and children were kidnapped, used as hostages, tortured, raped and some brutally killed. Syrian regime gangs still operate freely; some turn a blind eye, leaving minorities defenceless.

We call on:

• António Guterres, UN Secretary-General
• Alice Wairimu Nderitu, UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
• The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor
• The UN Human Rights Council
• The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Australia
• Foreign Ministers of the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany
• Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch

We demand urgent action to:

1. Immediate and safe release of all kidnapped women and girls. We demand an urgent action, their abductions are grave violations of human rights. They deserve justice, truth, and protection.

2. Support Self-Determination – Stand with the people of Sweida in their rightful demand to freely decide their political, cultural, and social future, free from oppression, fear, and imposed control.

2. Ensure Global Intervention: Provide immediate humanitarian assistance, protect civilians, and hold perpetrators accountable.

3. Transparent investigation: Independent without any involvement by local authorities seen as partial or compromised.

4. Deliver Justice – Investigate crimes of killings, inhumane rapes, and mass violations against innocent civilians and bring justice to the victims and their families.

The people of Sweida are peaceful, resilient, and proud. We cannot remain silent while crimes against humanity continue. Silence is complicity.

WE URGE THE WORLD TO ACT NOW, SIGN THIS PETITION AND RAISE YOUR VOICE WITH US.