The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2019), para. 59
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39. Expresses concern that the hostilities have restricted access to or resulted in the loss of civil documentation, including through confiscation, thereby limiting freedom of movement, access to essential services, and housing, land and property rights, particularly for children, persons with disabilities, women and female-headed households, and notes that the lack of official death certificates can seriously affect inheritance and custody rights and severely restricts freedom of movement;