A/HRC/RES/33/23 16. Recognizes the permanent damage that torture and ill-treatment causes to its victims and their families; 17. 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; 18. Demands the immediate release of all persons arbitrarily detained, including women, children, human rights defenders, humanitarian aid providers, medical personnel and journalists; 19. Recalls the decision of the Security Council that the Syrian Arab Republic shall not use, develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile or retain chemical weapons, or, transfer, directly or indirectly, chemical weapons to other States or non-State actors1 and, in keeping with the decision of the Council, expresses its strong conviction that those individuals responsible for the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic should be held accountable; 20. Strongly condemns any use of any toxic chemical, such as chlorine, as a weapon in the Syrian Arab Republic, while noting with outrage that civilians continue to be killed and injured by toxic chemicals used as weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic; 21. Welcomes the report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism,2 and notes with deep concern its findings that the Syrian authorities were responsible for the use of chemical weapons (chlorine) in at least two attacks in the Syrian Arab Republic, in Talmenes in 2014 and Sarmin in 2015, and that the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh) was responsible for one mustard gas attack in the Syrian Arab Republic, in Marea in 2015; 22. Demands that the Syrian Arab Republic immediately cease the use of chemical weapons and adhere fully to its international obligations, including the requirement that it declare in full its chemical weapons programme, with special emphasis on the need for the Syrian Arab Republic to urgently resolve the verified gaps, inconsistencies and discrepancies pertaining to its declaration in respect of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction and to eliminate its chemical weapons programme in its entirety; 23. Calls upon the Syrian authorities and all other parties to the conflict to ensure the effective implementation of Security Council resolutions 2139 (2014) of 22 February 2014 and 2254 (2015), and in particular to end the arbitrary detention and torture of civilians in the Syrian Arab Republic, notably in prisons and detention facilities, as well as kidnappings, abductions and forced disappearances, as demanded by the Council in its resolution 2139 (2014); 24. Strongly condemns all use of starvation of civilians as a method of combat, and all besiegement directed against civilian populations; 25. Condemns the Syrian authorities’ indiscriminate use of heavy weapons and aerial bombardments, including cluster munitions, incendiary weapons, ballistic missiles and barrel bombs, and calls for an immediate end to all attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure, including medical facilities; 1 2 4 See Security Council resolution 2235 (2015). See S/2016/738.