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6.
Demands that the Syrian authorities cooperate fully with the Human Rights
Council and the Commission of Inquiry by granting it immediate, full and unfettered access
throughout the Syrian Arab Republic;
7.
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;
8.
Also 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, 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, and stresses the importance of the full
implementation of Security Council resolution 2170 (2014) of 15 August 2014;
9.
Further strongly condemns all attacks against the Syrian moderate
opposition, and calls for their immediate cessation, given that such attacks benefit the socalled Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh) and other terrorist groups, such as alNusrah Front, and contribute to a further deterioration in the humanitarian situation;
10.
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;
11.
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, personnel and transport and schools as such, to comply with their obligations
under international humanitarian law and to respect international human rights law;
12.
Expresses its profound concern about the findings of the report of the
Commission of Inquiry regarding the tragic and relentless level of indiscriminate and
disproportionate attacks on civilians in the Syrian Arab Republic, including on medical
facilities, personnel and transport, the blocked humanitarian convoys, enforced
disappearances, summary executions and other violations and abuses;
13.
Also expresses its profound concern at the findings of the Commission of
Inquiry that violence has reached unprecedented levels in Aleppo and other parts of the
Syrian Arab Republic, and that civilians have suffered profoundly from aerial and shelling
bombardments, primarily by regime forces and its supporters;
14.
Strongly condemns the widespread practice of enforced disappearance and
arbitrary detention and the use of sexual violence, torture and ill-treatment, especially in
detention centres run by the Syrian authorities, 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, and notes that such acts may constitute violations or abuses of
international human rights law or violations of international humanitarian law;
15.
facilities;
Condemns the denial of medical services in all prisons and detention
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