Syrian Arab Republic

• Abduction 30
• Access to procedures 6
• Access to water 2
• Ahwazi 2
• Alawi 12
• Anglican 1
• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arabs 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 41
• Armed attacks on camps 1
• Armed forces / Military 17
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 73
• Armenian 1
• Assyrians 2
• Asylum policy 3
• Asylum-seekers 11
• Baptist 5
• Bedoon 1
• Border controls 1
• Capacity building of state institutions 1
• Catholic 12
• Chaldean 4
• Child labour 8
• Child prostitution 7
• Child soldiers 12
• Children's rights 30
• Children-at-risk 20
• Christian 21
• Civil and political rights 4
• Civil war 18
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 5
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 3
• Contemporary forms of slavery 4
• Corruption 15
• Criminal justice 19
• Dalit 1
• Death in custody 11
• Death penalty 20
• Demobilization / Disarmament 4
• Democracy 9
• Deportation / Forcible return 4
• Disappeared persons 45
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 38
• Domestic violence 3
• Druze 14
• Economic, social and cultural rights 14
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 21
• Emigrants 2
• Equality before the law 4
• Extrajudicial executions 37
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 6
• Forced labour 27
• Forced marriage 11
• Forced relocation 8
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 44
• Freedom of assembly and association 50
• Freedom of conscience 5
• Freedom of expression 249
• Freedom of information 172
• Freedom of movement 29
• Freedom of religion 63
• Freedom of speech 25
• Gender discrimination 31
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Generalized violence 2
• Good governance 2
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 2
• Group / Prima facie determination 1
• HIV and AIDS 2
• Harmful traditional practices 1
• Honour killings 3
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 5
• Human rights activists 31
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 43
• Human rights monitors 11
• Humanitarian assistance 16
• Immigration Detention 4
• Immigration law 1
• Impunity 28
• Independence of judiciary 6
• Indigenous persons 3
• Internal armed conflict 26
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 43
• International courts and tribunals 2
• International criminal law 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 6
• International protection 3
• Ismaili 9
• Jehovah's Witness 7
• Jew 13
• Kurd 37
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 4
• Legal representation / Legal aid 3
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 6
• Maronite 5
• Mennonite 5
• Migrants 6
• Military operations 9
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
• Minorities 30
• Minority rights 10
• Mormon 5
• Muslim 13
• National security / Public order 2
• Non-state agents of persecution 6
• Opposition 19
• Orthodox Christian 12
• Palestinian 6
• Peacekeeping 3
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 17
• Persecution of family members 1
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
• Persons with disabilities 10
• Police 8
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 8
• Political situation 6
• Polygamy 1
• Pre-trial detention 6
• Prison or detention conditions 17
• Property restitution 5
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 9
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 27
• 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 44
• Rejection at border 1
• Religious discrimination 34
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 19
• Resettlement 1
• Residence permits / Residency 3
• Right to education 7
• Right to employment 9
• Right to food 4
• Right to health 2
• Right to justice 3
• Right to registration at birth 2
• Right to self-determination 3
• Roma 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 24
• Safe third country 1
• Salafi 4
• Sanctions 2
• Security forces 13
• Security situation 6
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 35
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
• Shia 14
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 13
• State of emergency 6
• Statelessness 10
• Sunni 17
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
• Terrorism 70
• Threats / Intimidation 8
• Torture 41
• Trafficking in persons 38
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 6
• Urban refugees 1
• Visas 4
• Voluntary repatriation 2
• War crimes 9
• 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