Syrian Arab Republic

• Abduction 8
• Access to procedures 3
• Alawi 8
• Anglican 1
• Arabs 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 23
• Armed forces / Military 4
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 48
• Armenian 1
• Assyrians 2
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-seekers 1
• Baptist 5
• Catholic 12
• Chaldean 4
• Child labour 7
• Child prostitution 7
• Child soldiers 7
• Children's rights 19
• Children-at-risk 15
• Christian 12
• Civil war 7
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 2
• Contemporary forms of slavery 3
• Corruption 7
• Criminal justice 5
• Democracy 3
• Disappeared persons 21
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 19
• Domestic violence 2
• Druze 11
• Economic, social and cultural rights 13
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 6
• Emigrants 2
• Extrajudicial executions 21
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 3
• Forced labour 27
• Forced marriage 7
• Forced relocation 4
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 18
• Freedom of assembly and association 23
• Freedom of expression 21
• Freedom of information 10
• Freedom of movement 20
• Freedom of religion 40
• Freedom of speech 21
• Gender discrimination 20
• Gender-based persecution 1
• HIV and AIDS 2
• Harmful traditional practices 1
• Honour killings 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 14
• Human rights monitors 4
• Humanitarian assistance 3
• Immigration Detention 1
• Impunity 6
• Independence of judiciary 2
• Internal armed conflict 6
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 7
• International protection 3
• Ismaili 8
• Jehovah's Witness 5
• Jew 11
• Kurd 4
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 2
• Maronite 5
• Mennonite 5
• Migrants 3
• Military operations 3
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 1
• Minorities 11
• Mormon 5
• Muslim 12
• National security / Public order 2
• Non-state agents of persecution 2
• Opposition 3
• Orthodox Christian 11
• Palestinian 2
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 6
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 3
• Persons with disabilities 7
• Police 6
• Political parties 2
• Polygamy 1
• Pre-trial detention 3
• Prison or detention conditions 10
• Property restitution 5
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 5
• Protestant 6
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Referendum 1
• Refugee camps 1
• Refugees 12
• Religious discrimination 25
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 15
• Right to education 2
• Right to employment 1
• Right to food 1
• Right to health 1
• Right to registration at birth 2
• Right to self-determination 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 6
• Salafi 3
• Security forces 9
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 22
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
• Shia 11
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 13
• Statelessness 4
• Sunni 12
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
• Terrorism 60
• Threats / Intimidation 3
• Torture 8
• Trafficking in persons 36
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 6
• Voluntary repatriation 1
• War crimes 1
• Women's rights 19
• Women-at-risk 13
• Yazīdī 9

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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