Syrian Arab Republic

• Abduction 5
• Abuse of psychiatry 1
• Administrative law 1
• Arabs 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 11
• Armed forces / Military 11
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 11
• Assyrians 1
• Border conflict 2
• Chechen 1
• Child soldiers 2
• Children's rights 8
• Children-at-risk 4
• Christian 1
• Civil war 9
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
• Conflict situation 3
• Crimes against humanity 6
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 1
• Democracy 1
• Disappeared persons 10
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 1
• Druze 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 1
• Effective remedy 2
• Elections 1
• Evacuation 1
• Extrajudicial executions 10
• Foreign occupation 3
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 16
• Freedom of expression 4
• Freedom of information 3
• Freedom of movement 1
• Freedom of speech 3
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Generalized violence 1
• Genocide 1
• Good governance 3
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 2
• Human Rights Council 23
• Human rights activists 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 18
• Human rights law 1
• Human rights monitors 1
• Humanitarian assistance 5
• Impunity 3
• Independence of judiciary 2
• Internal armed conflict 14
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 9
• International criminal law 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 10
• Kurd 3
• Maternal and child health care 1
• Migrants 1
• Military operations 5
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 1
• Minorities 1
• Muslim 1
• Nomads 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 4
• Opposition 1
• Palestinian 1
• Peace process 1
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 1
• Persecution of family members 1
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 2
• Political situation 11
• Prison or detention conditions 3
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 13
• Public health 1
• Referendum 1
• Refugees 4
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 2
• Right to a nationality 1
• Right to education 1
• Right to food 2
• Right to health 2
• Right to justice 1
• Roma 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 6
• Sanctions 1
• Security forces 3
• Security situation 9
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 13
• Shia 1
• Statelessness 2
• Sunni 1
• Terrorism 10
• Torture 3
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 7
• War crimes 7
• Women-at-risk 3
• Yazīdī 2

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• Amnesty International - Syria
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Syrian Arab Rep
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Syria
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Syria
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Syria
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Syria
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Syria
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Syrian Arab Republic
• ReliefWeb - Syrian Arab Republic (the)
• Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC)
• UNHCR - Syrian Arab Republic
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Syrian Arab Republic
• United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF)
• United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO)
• United States Department of State - Syria
• Women's Learning Partnership - Claiming Equal Citizenship
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Syria
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Syrian Arab Republic