LAW’s Syria programme grew out of survivors’ demands for justice for gendered crimes. It has supported the development of a survivor led call to action on sexual and gender based violence in Syria, trained legal practitioners and activists across Jordan, Iraq and Turkey in strategic lawyering, and prioritised protection for at risk survivors including members of the LGBTQI+ community. LAW’s 2025 perceptions of justice survey found that women and minority communities articulate the strongest demands for rights, equality and institutional reform.

LAW represents Syrian survivors of deportation, persecution, sexual violence and torture seeking an International Criminal Court investigation into cross border atrocity crimes, and has been advocating for a Rome Statute state party referral of the situation. It has submitted over 1,200 pages of testimonial evidence to international mechanisms. Following the transition, LAW’s legal team in Syria challenged arbitrary travel bans imposed for political and security reasons, securing their lifting in nearly every case handled, and obtained the release of three people detained over freedom of movement, privacy and expression.

When the Ministry of Justice entrusted LAW’s partner, the Syrian Centre for Legal Studies and Research, with more than 450,000 files recovered from the former Terrorism Court, LAW supported the digitisation and organisation of that archive. Over 820 files covering detention, enforced disappearance and judicial and security decisions have been preserved so far. In December 2025 LAW published the first nationwide public opinion survey on justice conducted inside Syria since the transition began, drawing on 1,101 respondents across 13 governorates.

LAW has documented the distinct impact of enforced disappearance on Syrian children, producing a policy brief on how the loss of a parent affects a child’s legal identity, civil documentation and access to services. This work sits alongside LAW’s submissions to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on behalf of Syrian families searching for the truth about their relatives.