United Nations procures millions of dollars in contracts linked to Syrian government-backed individuals
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A new report has found that the United Nations has received money in contracts linked to Syrian government-backed individuals that have been sanctioned for human rights violations.
Syrian President Bashar Assad, with military support from Russia, Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has since been able to reclaim much of the country. But Syria continues to spiral from a crippling economic crisis and a recent cholera outbreak that has infected some 20,000 people.
A report analyzing the U.N.'s top 100 suppliers in Syria in 2019 and 2020 by the non-profit Observatory of Political and Economic Networks and the non-governmental organization Syrian Legal Development Program revealed that almost half of the procured contracts those two years were with suppliers that were involved in human rights abuses, or may have profited from them.