7. On 17 November 2020, RSI raised its concerns with the governments of the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, and provided them with an opportunity to respond. Those responses are detailed in Annex I to this report. 8. RSI would like to thank the individuals and organisations who agreed to meet with us and whose insights and experiences inform this report. In particular, RSI wishes to thank the children and their families who shared their experiences and trusted RSI to raise their concerns. In this report, real names of interviewees are used where informed consent has been provided; otherwise names and other identifying information have been withheld for reasons of confidentiality. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9. RSI has consulted widely in preparing this report with women and children detained in North East Syria, their families, government officials, and experts from a variety of fields. RSI thanks them all for their assistance, candour, and thoughtful contributions. 10. This report has been written by Marie Forestier, research consultant, Yasmine Ahmed, RSI’s Executive Director, and Adriana Edmeades Jones, human rights consultant and former Legal and Policy Director of RSI. The authors wish to thank Gretta Schumacher, RSI’s former Senior Legal Officer, for her extensive research and assistance, and the RSI team of Tufyal Choudhury, Emily Ramsden, Hayley Evans, Islam Abdelgadir, Alison Huyghe, and Sabah Hussain for their detailed input. The authors additionally wish to thank Khabbat Abbas for the photography for this report as well as providing excellent translation and other assistance in North East Syria. Children in al Hol camp 8 RIGHTS & SECURITY INTERNATIONAL