Protection

The purpose of the Protection Cluster and its Sub-Clusters is to strengthen and coordinate the humanitarian protection response in Syria. The programmatic interventions of the Clusters’ partners aim to mitigate and alleviate the protection consequences of the conflict inside Syria. The Protection Cluster adheres to the IASC definition of protection to guide its activities. As such, the Protection Cluster defines protection as: “all activities aimed at ensuring full respect for the rights of the individual in accordance with the letter and spirit of the relevant bodies of law (i.e. human rights law, international humanitarian law and refugee laws).”

The Syria Protection Cluster (Turkey) aims to uphold and promote the rights of women, men, girls and boys affected by the Syrian conflict, and ensures that persons in need affected by the conflict have access to safe and dignified services that mitigate and respond to rights violations. 

The Syria Protection Cluster (Turkey) is made up of the Protection Cluster as well as three Sub-Clusters: Child Protection, Gender-Based Violence, and Mine Action.

For further information, please contact the Protection Cluster Coordinator, Katherine Dunn at dunnk@unhcr.org

Protection Cluster Membership Criteria - Arabic
Protection Cluster Emergency Response Model

• Protection Monitoring Report: Intentions of Newly Displaced in Idlib, February 2020_EN
• Protection Monitoring Report - Idleb and Aleppo Displacement (May 2019)
• Protection Monitoring Report - Displacements from Eastern Ghouta (April 2018)
• Rapid Protection Monitoring update on displacement to Idleb and Aleppo (February 2018)
• Movement from Arsal, Lebanon to Idleb and Aleppo (August 2017)
• Update on Screening and Sponsorship Procedures in Ar-Raqqa and Aleppo (June 2017)
• Evacuation of Al Wa’er, Homs Governorate - Update 2 (May 2017)
• Evacuation of Madaya and Az-Zabdani, Rural Damascus (April 2017)
• Displacement towards Menbij, Ain Issa, and Azaz Subdistrict  (March 2017)
• Evacuation of Al Wa’er, Homs Governorate (February 2017)
• The impact of the December 30 ceasefire agreement on civilians (January 2017)
• Monitoring of the Protection Situation in Besieged East Aleppo City, (18-20 November 2016)
• Monitoring of the Protection Situation in Besieged East Aleppo City, (November 2016)