Well, that's one of our concerns. We have gone back to that horrible time when COFADEH originated. COFADEH was created because of human rights violations by the state. When there is no tolerance, and that political intolerance leads to a military presence throughout the country, the logical result is human rights violations.
In the eighties when we began our work, that was the situation, political intolerance and persecution of political dissidents. That's why there were forced disappearances as a practice, and as we know, it is a crime against humanity.
We're back in that very same situation and that is why we are here. That's why we are so concerned. There is talk of democracy, but in essence, there are attacks against dissidents, against those who want to speak out, who want to talk about what's going on to improve things. We are making proposals, we want to make proposals, but we cannot. It's not possible.
COFADEH has been working for many years and after all of that work, we have collected so much evidence about what is being done against the people. For example, people who protest against mines and there are the garment factories as well. There are over 600 young women who have presented their cases over recent years. We are studying it in COFADEH because their social rights have been violated and their right to help has been violated.
We are working on all of those issues and we are showing it here, so that you can learn about this situation so that it won't surprise you if a claim about this is issued by our organization. Our organization also supports the people in the Siria Valley.