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situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, including the human rights and humanitarian
situation, which has a serious negative impact on the region;
5.
Also strongly condemns the terrorist acts and violence committed against
civilians by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh), Al-Nusrah Front
and 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 (Da’esh), 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;
6.
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 (Da’esh), in
particular the enslavement and sexual abuse and exploitation of women and girls, enforced
disappearances and the forced recruitment and abduction of children;
7.
Condemns all violations and abuses of international human rights law and all
violations of international humanitarian law committed by all parties to the conflict,
including against women and children and persons with disabilities;
8.
Urges all parties to the conflict, particularly the Syrian authorities and their
allies, not to commit indiscriminate attacks against the civilian population and civilian
facilities, including against medical facilities, personnel and transport, schools and
humanitarian workers, and also urges all parties to the conflict to comply with their
obligations under international humanitarian law and to respect international human rights
law;
9.
Strongly condemns all attacks on medical and health personnel, their means
of transport and equipment, as well as hospitals and other medical facilities, and deplores
the long-term consequences of such attacks for the population and health-care systems of
the Syrian Arab Republic;
10.
Also strongly condemns the attacks against hospitals and civilian objects,
such as schools, as reported by the Commission of Inquiry, 47 and urges the Syrian
authorities to refrain from actions that impede children’s access to education, which is of
vital importance for their protection and development;
11.
Expresses its profound concern at the findings of the Commission of Inquiry
in its report on Aleppo,47 including those suggesting that the offensive against eastern
Aleppo in the second half of 2016 involved serious violations and abuses of international
human rights law and violations of international humanitarian law by all parties to the
conflict, which, according to the Commission, in many cases amounted to war crimes, in
particular by the Syrian authorities and their allies, including the Urum al-Kubra attack;
12.
Urges all parties to the conflict to heed the recommendations made by the
Commission of Inquiry in its report, including the need to comply with their respective
obligations under international human rights and international humanitarian law, including
refraining from disproportionate and indiscriminate attacks;
13.
Strongly condemns the widespread practice of enforced disappearance,
arbitrary detention and the use of sexual violence, torture and ill-treatment, especially in
detention facilities run by the Syrian authorities, including those acts referenced in the
reports of the Commission of Inquiry and those depicted in the evidence presented by
“Caesar” in January 2014, and notes that such acts may constitute violations and abuses of
international human rights law or violations of international humanitarian law;
14.
Also strongly condemns the reported killing of detainees in Syrian Military
Intelligence facilities, in particular in the Mezzeh airport detention facility, and Military
Security Branches 215, 227, 235, 248 and 291, as well as the reported killing of detainees at
military hospitals, including Tishreen and Harasta, and expresses deep concern at reports
that the regime used a crematorium to conceal a mass killing of prisoners at the Saydnaya
penitentiary complex;
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See A/HRC/34/64 and A/HRC/34/CRP.3.
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