An online video produced by the wives of two UN ambassadors is urging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's wife to "stop being a bystander" and do more to push her husband toward peace, CBC News reports.
Asma Assad has stood beside her husband throughout a 13-month conflict that the UN says has left more than 9,000 people dead.
The video, produced by the wives of German and British ambassadors to the UN, calls on the British-born Assad to do more to push for peace in Syria, where fresh reports of conflict and shelling in the flashpoint city of Homs have left a ceasefire plan teetering.
"This is a letter to Asma al-Assad, signed by women all over the world," a woman's voice says in the video.
The opening shots show the stylishly-dressed Assad, and then flashes forward to images of Syrian women protesting, and scenes of dead and dying Syrian children.
"Some women care for style — and some women care for their people," the video says.
UN diplomats' wives urge Asma Assad to 'stand up for peace'
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