Help us get humanitarian aid to Syrian civilians
Newest UNRWA #LetUsThrough campaign geared towardPalestnians in Yarmouk camp and other civilians
Sign the Thunderclap campaign #LetUsThrough. Send the campaign to your lists. Help us reach 23 million people and get the campaign on the Jumbotron in NYC's Times Square! |
The American Muslims for Palestine has joined with a global humanitarian community to release a joint “Thunderclap” statement demanding “immediate, secure, substantial and permanent humanitarian access for all civilians in Syria, including countless children. The statement, which comes a week after the UN was last able to deliver food to Yarmouk camp in Damascus. The effort is signed by 130 organisations, including major United Nations agencies and International Non Governmental organizations along with smaller, grassroots groups with deep reach into local communities.
The statement urges “all parties on the ground to listen to the voice of the international community as expressed unanimously through the Security Council and to act now to halt the march of death, injury, hunger and suffering.” It makes a call to world leaders on the third anniversary of the start of the conflict; “Don't let the people in Syria, children and families, lose another year to bloodshed and suffering, violating the most fundamental laws of war.”
Sign the campaign and send it to your lists today!
Explaining the campaign, UNRWA Spokesperson, Chris Gunness said, “This is part of a Thunderclap social media campaign which aims to reach 23 million people with the hashtag “LetUsThrough. The “Thunderclap” itself will be at noon Yarmouk time on March 18, when a tweet with our campaign hashtag will be released to millions of people who will have signed up for the campaign. Anyone can join the campaign, individuals and organizations.
Once we reach 23 million, the iconic campaign image of thousands of civilians waiting for food in Yarmouk Camp will appear on the world famous electronic billboard in New York’s Times Square, sending a powerful signal to the global diplomatic community in UN Headquarters nearby.”
Gunness added, “ We will then photograph the image in Times Square and tweet it back to the 23 million who supported the campaign, including the people of Syria. So it is a campaign bringing together humanitarians all round the world, sending a powerful diplomatic message but also sending a signal of solidarity with all civilians in Syria, who have suffered enough because of this pitiless conflict. We also hope that diplomats at the UN and members of the public will take “selfies” with the image as a backdrop and send them round the world as an act of solidarity.”
“LetUsThrough is part of a wider initiative #WithSyria launched to mark the third anniversary of the start of the conflict in Syria. Organisations and individuals wishing to join the campaign can do so at Thunderclap.
#LetUsThrough
On the third anniversary of Syria’s pitiless conflict, we demand immediate, secure, substantial and permanent humanitarian access for all civilians, including countless children, in Syria. In the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, the parties have shown they can come together in ways that facilitate the work of humanitarian organisations. We urge all parties on the ground to listen to the voice of the international community as expressed unanimously through the Security Council and to act now to halt the march of death, injury, hunger and suffering. We say to our leaders: don't let the people in Syria, children and families, lose another year to bloodshed and suffering, violating the most fundamental laws of war. We must stand #WithSyria. We say as one #LetUsThrough
1. A Heart for Syria Association, Canada
2. Action Aid
3. Agencia Andaluza de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo, Spain
4. Agência da ONU de Assistência aos Refugiados da Palestina, Brazil
5. Agencia Extremeña de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo, Spain
6. Agenda 21 del Islam, Spain
7. Alianza por la Solidaridad, Spain
8. American Friends of UNRWA, USA
9. American Friends Service Committee
10. American Muslims for Palestine
11. American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)
12. Amnesty International
13. Arab American Community Coalition
14. Arab American Institute (AAI)
15. Asamblea de Cooperación por la Paz - ACPP, Spain
16. Asociación Acción Verapaz, Spain
17. Asociación Comisión Católica Española de Migración – ACCEM, Spain
18. Asociación Cultural Said Nurse, Spain
19. Asociación de la Comunidad Hispano-palestina “Jerusalén”, Spain
20. Asociación Europea de Cooperación con Palestina - ASECOP, Spain
21. Asociación Galaico Arabe – Jenin, Spain
22. Asociación Guanaminos sin Fronteras, Spain
23. Asociación IBN BATUTA, Spain
24. Asociación Madrileña AMAL, Spain
25. Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de Andalucía, Spain
26. Asociación XXI Solidario, Spain
27. Asociación Zarabanda, Spain
28. Aula de Solidaridad de Rivas, Spain
29. Australia Palestine Advocacy Network
30. Australia Palestine Professionals Association
31. Australian Lawyers for Human Rights Inc
32. Australians for Palestine
33. Bab al Shams Village Council, Palestine
34. Broederlijk Delen, Belgium
35. Brazilian Arab Palestine Federation
36. Brazilian Committee for the State of Palestine
37. Centre for Global Education, Belfast
38. Centro Euro Arabe de Cataluña, Spain
39. Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado - CEAR, Spain
40. Comité de Arbitraje Musulmán, Spain
41. Comité Defensa del Islam, Spain
42. Comunidad Palestina de Valencia, Spain
43. Consejo de Imanes y Predicadores de España, Spain
44. Council for Arab-British Understanding
45. Diakonia
46. Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN)
47. Federación de Asociaciones Medicus Mundi, Spain
48. Federación de Comunidades Musulmanas de Castilla La Mancha – FECOM, Spain
49. Fondazione Terre des Hommes, Italy
50. Foro de Cristianos Gaspar García Laviana, Spain
51. Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers)
52. Friends of Palestine Western Australia
53. Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP)
54. Fundación Infancia Solidaria, Spain
55. Fundación Cultura de Paz - CEIPAZ, Spain
56. Fundación Las Fuentes, Spain
57. General Union of Palestinian Communities in Europe
58. Health Work Committees, Palestine
59. Hope and Play UK
60. Human Rights Watch
61. Humanistic Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries, (HIVOS)
62. IMED Instituto per il Mediterraneo
63. Impact Lab (UK)
64. Institute for Palestine Studies, USA
65. Instituto da Cultura Árabe (Arab Culture Institute), Brazil
66. Instituto Español de Estudios Islámicos, Spain
67. Instituto Halal, Spain
68. International Federation for Human Rights
69. International Rescue Committee
70. Islamic Relief UK
71. Islamic Relief USA
72. Islamic Relief Worldwide
73. Italian Friends of UNRWA
74. Jahalin Association
75. Johanniter International Assistance
76. Junta Islámica, Spain
77. Justice for Palestine Matters, Sydney, Australia
78. Leichhardt Friends of Hebron, Australia
79. Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine
80. Movimiento por la Paz, El Desarme y la Libertad- MPDL, Spain
81. Mujeres en Zona de Conflicto – MZC, Spain
82. Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)
83. Najda Now International
84. Nexus Emilia Romagna, Italy
85. Norwegian Church Aid (Norwegian)
86. Norwegian People´s Aid
87. Norwegian Refugee Council
88. ONG Rescate Internacional, Spain
89. Office of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
90. Organización Española Al-Ikhlas, Spain
91. Oxfam
92. Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace
93. PAX
94. Pax Christi Flanders
95. Pax Christi International
96. Pax Christi USA
97. PIEN (the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Network), Australia
98. RedR, UK
99. Reel Arts, Scotland
100.Refugees International
101.RESPECT Refugiados, Spain
102.Salaam Cultural Museum
103.Save the Children
104.SODEPAZ, Spain
105.SOS Children's Villages International
106.The Asfari Foundation
107.The International Forum for Peace and Reconciliation in the Middle East
108.The Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine, Sydney.
109.The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
110.The United Nations Association, UK
111.The United Nations Office of High Commissioner For Human Rights
112.The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
113.The United Nations Offices for Project Services, UNOPS
114.The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA
115.UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund
116.United Nations Information Centre, Islamabad
117.United Nations Information Centre, Jakarta
118.United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
119.United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC)
120.United Palestinian Appeal (UPA)
121.UNRWA, Italia
122.War-Toys Project
123.Washington Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace
124.Welfare Association (@WAssociationUK)
125.Women Federation for World Peace, Spain
126.World Alliance for Citizen Participation
127.World Food Programme
128.World Health Organisation