The United Nations' European headquarters is in Geneva and from there a group of minority Syrian leaders launched a global petition. They announced it on Sept. 9, at the Geneva Press Club on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council, which was debating Syria. Earlier, on August 21, a group of UN experts had sounded the alarm over a wave of armed attacks on Syrian Druze communities in and around Sweida governorate since July 13. She said that in Syria, jihadists have filmed themselves tormenting Kurds, Alawites, Christians, and now, most recently, the Druze of Sweida. There is a Christian population of 10 percent and a Druze population of three percent.