A/HRC/28/69 186. Women have been executed in Ar Raqqah and Dayr az Zawr.d These executions, carried out as punishment for crimes such as adultery, were utilised to instil fear among women for disobeying the social edicts imposed by ISIS. 187. The restrictions imposed on women and subsequent corporal punishments for noncompliance continue to occur, enforced by the Al-Hisbah morality police and the AlKhans’aa all-female brigade. In Ar Raqqah, women and men have been lashed for improper dress and women’s freedom of movement has been severely restricted. In Aleppo, women and men have been forced to comply with onerous dress and prayer instructions in Al-Bab, Minbeij, Massakanah, and Dayr Hafir. In Al Hsakah, ISIS has imposed dress codes for women in Qamishli and restricted the movement of men. Similar measures were undertaken in Aqaribat (Hama) and in Al-Mayadin and Al-Bukamal (Dayr az Zawr) in October 2014. The psychological and physical harm caused by ISIS’s treatment of women, the onerous instructions imposed on their dress code, and restrictions on their freedom of movement demonstrate discriminatory treatment on the basis of gender. 188. During its early August 2014 attack on Sinjar in northern Iraq, ISIS abducted hundreds of Yazidi women and girls. Some abductees have been taken into Syria and sold as ‘war booty’ to ISIS fighters while others have been given to ISIS fighters as ‘concubines’.e Information collected recently indicates that groups of dozens of girls and women have been transported to various locations in Syria, including Ar Raqqah, Al Hsakah, and Dayr az Zawr. There, the girls and women are raped and held in sexual slavery. Most of the women and girls captured remain in captivity in Syria. The enslavement of Yazidi women was undertaken as part of ISIS’s attack on civilian communities considered to be infidels. ISIS attacks on Yazidi women and girls now being held inside Syria are violations of international humanitarian law and amount to the war crime of sexual slavery, sexual violence, rape and forced pregnancy. Undertaken as part of a widespread and systematic attack identified in paragraph 90, these acts amount to the crimes against humanity of enslavement, rape and sexual violence. 189. Gay men have been targeted on the basis of their sexuality and killed. Reports indicate that such conduct is indicative of a broader pattern of ISIS’ treatment of homosexual men. Such killings constitute murder as a war crime, and a crime against humanity. 190. ISIS has imposed arbitrary and disproportionate restrictions on women and men on the basis of their gender, inflicting harsh punishments for non-compliance with ISIS’ edicts and instilling fear among the civilian population under the control. Corporal punishments amount to cruel treatment and torture, and publicly humiliate and degrade women and men, in violation of customary international humanitarian law and rising to the level of war crimes, incurring individual criminal and command responsibility. Undertaken as part of a widespread and systematic attack, these acts amount to the crimes against humanity of torture and other inhumane acts. Violations of children’s rights G. 1. Government forces 191. Children have been killed, injured and maimed in aerial bombardments, barrel bomb and shelling attacks carried out by the Government on a massive scale. Children living in non-State armed group-controlled neighbourhoods of Aleppo city have been suffering from d e See paragraphs 72, 75 below, as well as A/HRC/27/CRP.3, paragraph 52. See A/HRC/27/CRP.3, paragraphs 53-57. 49