A/HRC/RES/31/17 6. Strongly condemns the continued systematic, widespread and gross violations and abuses of human rights and all violations of international humanitarian law by the Syrian authorities and affiliated militias, including foreign terrorist fighters and those foreign organizations fighting on behalf of the Syrian authorities, in particular Hizbullah, and expresses deep concern that their involvement further exacerbates the deteriorating situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, including the human rights and humanitarian situation, which has a serious negative impact on the region; 7. Stresses the importance of efforts to sustain the Cessation of Hostilities that came into force on 27 February 2016 and the delivery of humanitarian assistance, and of the full implementation of Security Council resolutions 2178 (2014) of 24 September 2014, 2199 (2015) of 12 February 2015, 2249 (2015) of 20 November 2015, 2253 (2015) of 17 December 2015, 2254 (2015) and 2268 (2016); 8. Strongly condemns the terrorist acts and violence committed against civilians by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh), al-Nusrah Front or other terrorist organizations designated by the Security Council, and their continued gross, systematic and widespread abuses of international human rights law and violations of international humanitarian law, and reaffirms that terrorism, including the actions of the socalled Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh), cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality or civilization; 9. Condemns in the strongest terms the gross and systematic abuse of women’s and children’s rights by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh), in particular the enslavement and sexual abuse of women and girls, enforced disappearances and the forced recruitment and abduction of children; 10. Condemns all violations and abuses of international human rights law and all violations of international humanitarian law, including against women and children, and persons with disabilities, and urges all parties to the conflict not to commit indiscriminate attacks against the civilian population and civilian objects, including against medical facilities and schools as such, to comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law and to respect international human rights law; 11. Strongly condemns the widespread practice of enforced disappearance and the use of sexual violence and torture, especially in detention centres, including those acts referenced in the reports of the Commission of Inquiry, as well as those depicted in the evidence presented by “Caesar” in January 2014, notes that such acts may constitute violations or abuses of international human rights law or violations of international humanitarian law, condemns the denial of medical services in all prisons and detention facilities, recognizes the permanent damage from torture to victims and their families, and calls for the appropriate international monitoring bodies to be granted immediate access without undue restriction to all detainees and for the Syrian authorities to publish a list of all detention facilities; 12. Also strongly condemns all enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention by the Syrian authorities and all parties to the conflict, and demands the immediate release of all persons arbitrarily detained, including women, children, human rights defenders, humanitarian aid providers, medical personnel and journalists; 13. Welcomes the fact that the Joint Investigative Mechanism, which was established by the Security Council in its resolution 2235 (2015) of 7 August 2015 to identify those involved in the use of any toxic chemical, such as chlorine or any other chemical, as a weapon in the Syrian Arab Republic, became fully operational in November 2015, and calls upon all parties in the Syrian Arab Republic to extend their full cooperation to the Joint Investigative Mechanism and the fact-finding mission and the declaration assessment team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and 3