Tag: Geneva2
![Photo: Maria-Cristina Travaglio](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Time-for-peace-Montreux-2.jpg)
Geneva II peace talks: where are the voices of Syrian women?
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There is something almost surreal about the setting for the Syrian peace talks taking place in Switzerland this week. Montreux is breathtakingly beautiful, the snow-topped Swiss Alps rising starkly over Lake Geneva. Yet this is where world leaders are to decide the fate of Syria and to try and end the brutal war which has […] Read more »
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Arms to Syria: A barrier to peace
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The conflict in Syria is close to entering its fourth year. Ordinary Syrians are the victims of this humanitarian catastrophe – deliberately targeted by those fighting, their cities destroyed, often deprived of food and water, millions have been forced to flee for their lives. A conflict that began in the political turmoil of the Arab […] Read more »
![Oxfam campaigners at the peace conference in Montreux install tombstones illustrating the urgent need to bring an end to the violence that has killed more than 100,000 people and displaced millions in and around Syria. Photo: Maria Christina Travaglio/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Oxfam-campaigners-in-Montreux4.jpg)
Syria peace talks begin at last, but Syrian civil society and women sidelined
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After months of postponements, the long-awaited Geneva II Conference to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria began yesterday in Montreux, Swtizerland. At the end of the first day of the conference, Oxfam’s Humanitarian Policy Advisor Shaheen Chughtai gave a wrap up of progress so far. It took a monumental diplomatic effort […] Read more »
![10 year old Kasser overlooking the informal tented settlement his Syrian family is currently living in. Photo: Ruba Saqr/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/syria-snow.jpg)
A time for hope for Syria
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Oxfam campaigners are amongst the hundreds of diplomats, journalists, civil society and solidarity groups gathering for the beginning of the long awaited ‘Geneva 2’ peace talks for Syria in the tranquil town of Montreaux, on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Police are patrolling the edges of a security fence which rings the buildings where the talks […] Read more »