Syrian Arab Republic

• Amnesty International 27
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 162
• Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) 1
• European Union: European Asylum Support Office (EASO) 1
• European Union: European Commission 1
• Freedom House 49
• Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack 1
• Human Rights Watch 27
• International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) 1
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 9
• International Federation for Human Rights 9
• International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) 1
• International Trade Union Confederation 6
• Minority Rights Group International 14
• Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) 8
• Reporters Without Borders 19
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 10
• UN Human Rights Council 1
• UN Secretary-General (UNSG) 1
• UN Security Council 1
• UN World Food Programme 2
• United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office 13
• United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 3
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 13
• United States Department of State 91

• Abduction 27
• Access to procedures 5
• Access to water 2
• Ahwazi 2
• Alawi 11
• Anglican 1
• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arabs 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 39
• Armed attacks on camps 1
• Armed forces / Military 16
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 52
• Armenian 1
• Assyrians 2
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-migration nexus 1
• Asylum-seekers 13
• Baptist 5
• Bedoon 1
• Border conflict 1
• Border controls 2
• Capacity building of state institutions 1
• Catholic 11
• Chaldean 4
• Child labour 7
• Child prostitution 6
• Child soldiers 10
• Children's rights 30
• Children-at-risk 19
• Christian 19
• Civil and political rights 4
• Civil war 14
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 5
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 3
• Contemporary forms of slavery 4
• Corruption 13
• Criminal justice 19
• Dalit 1
• Death in custody 10
• Death penalty 19
• Demobilization / Disarmament 5
• Democracy 7
• Deportation / Forcible return 4
• Disappeared persons 42
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 37
• Domestic violence 2
• Druze 12
• Economic, social and cultural rights 14
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 19
• Emigrants 1
• Equality before the law 4
• Extrajudicial executions 35
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 5
• Forced labour 25
• Forced marriage 9
• Forced relocation 6
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 43
• Freedom of assembly and association 48
• Freedom of conscience 5
• Freedom of expression 231
• Freedom of information 159
• Freedom of movement 27
• Freedom of religion 58
• Freedom of speech 24
• Gender discrimination 30
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Generalized violence 2
• Good governance 2
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 2
• Group / Prima facie determination 1
• HIV and AIDS 1
• Honour killings 3
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 5
• Human rights activists 31
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 42
• Human rights monitors 10
• Humanitarian assistance 13
• Immigration Detention 4
• Immigration law 2
• Impunity 26
• Independence of judiciary 5
• Indigenous persons 3
• Integration 1
• Internal armed conflict 23
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 36
• International courts and tribunals 2
• International criminal law 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 5
• International protection 3
• Ismaili 8
• Jehovah's Witness 7
• Jew 11
• Kurd 34
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 3
• Legal representation / Legal aid 3
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 6
• Livelihoods 1
• Maronite 5
• Maternal and child health care 1
• Mennonite 5
• Migrants 5
• Military operations 7
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
• Minorities 29
• Minority rights 10
• Mormon 5
• Muslim 11
• National security / Public order 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 5
• Older persons 1
• Opposition 19
• Orthodox Christian 11
• Palestinian 6
• Peacekeeping 3
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 16
• Persecution of family members 1
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 3
• Persons with disabilities 10
• Police 7
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 6
• Political situation 6
• Polygamy 1
• Pre-trial detention 5
• Prison or detention conditions 16
• Property restitution 4
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 9
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 23
• Protestant 6
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
• Public health 6
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 4
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 2
• Reception 1
• Referendum 2
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee camps 4
• Refugee identity documents 1
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
• Refugees 45
• Rejection at border 1
• Religious discrimination 31
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 16
• Resettlement 1
• Residence permits / Residency 3
• Right to education 5
• Right to employment 9
• Right to food 6
• Right to health 2
• Right to justice 3
• Right to registration at birth 1
• Right to self-determination 3
• Roma 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 22
• SGBV 34
• Safe third country 1
• Salafi 3
• Sanctions 2
• Security forces 12
• Security situation 6
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Shia 12
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 13
• State of emergency 6
• Statelessness 11
• Sunni 15
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 2
• Terrorism 50
• Threats / Intimidation 7
• Torture 38
• Trafficking in persons 36
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 5
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Urban refugees 1
• Visas 5
• Voluntary repatriation 1
• War crimes 5
• Women's rights 37
• Women-at-risk 13
• Work permits 2
• Yazīdī 10

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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