Syrian Arab Republic

• Annual Protection Reports 7
• Country News 1,512

• Abduction 17
• Abkhazians 1
• Airports 1
• Alawi 1
• Armed attacks on camps 3
• Armed forces / Military 171
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 252
• Assyrians 2
• Asylum-seekers 1
• Border conflict 13
• Border controls 4
• Catholic 1
• Ceasefire 52
• Chechen 4
• Child soldiers 2
• Children's rights 1
• Children-at-risk 4
• Christian 4
• Circassians 1
• Civil war 94
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 2
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Crimes against humanity 6
• Criminal justice 1
• Death penalty 1
• Disappeared persons 3
• Elections 7
• Embargo 1
• Evacuation 15
• Extrajudicial executions 8
• Flight by land, air or sea 6
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 4
• Freedom of assembly and association 1
• Freedom of expression 10
• Freedom of information 4
• Generalized violence 1
• Genocide 1
• Human rights monitors 38
• Humanitarian assistance 28
• IDP camps 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
• Internal armed conflict 231
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 5
• International armed conflict 1
• International courts and tribunals 5
• Kosovar 4
• Kurd 42
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 3
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 2
• Mass exodus 3
• Mental harm 1
• Migrants 2
• Military law 1
• Military operations 216
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 1
• Muslim 2
• Opposition 175
• Ossetians (South) 1
• Palestinian 2
• Peace agreements 2
• Peace process 98
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 1
• Police 1
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 2
• Political situation 5
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 56
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 5
• Public health 2
• Refugee camps 4
• Refugees 18
• Rejection at border 1
• Returnees 1
• Right to food 1
• Sanctions 23
• Security forces 4
• Security situation 7
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 3
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Shia 4
• Small arms 4
• Sunni 1
• Terrorism 42
• Torture 5
• Trafficking in persons 1
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 1
• Visas 2
• War crimes 31
• Women-at-risk 1
• Yazīdī 1

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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