A/HRC/RES/51/26
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 October 2022
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-first session
12 September–7 October 2022
Agenda item 4
Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 7 October 2022
51/26.
Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming its previous resolutions on the Syrian Arab Republic,
Reaffirming also its strong commitment to full respect for the sovereignty,
independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic,
Condemning the grave situation of human rights across the Syrian Arab Republic, and
demanding that the Syrian regime meet its responsibility to protect the Syrian population and
to respect and protect the human rights of all persons within its jurisdiction, including persons
in detention and their families,
Expressing its deepest concern at the finding of the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights that, of the 350,209 deaths in the conflict recorded from
2011 to 2021, 143,350 were identified as civilians, in addition to an estimated 163,537
undocumented civilian deaths, representing 1.5 per cent of the total population of the Syrian
Arab Republic at the beginning of the conflict,1
Condemning the fact that children continue to be subjected to serious violations of
international humanitarian and human rights law, as identified by the Secretary-General,2 and
that the scale and recurrent nature of such violations and abuses will affect generations to
come, and noting with deep regret the finding of the Office of the High Commissioner that
almost one in 13 of those who have died as a result of the conflict was a child,3
Noting with concern the situation of internally displaced persons in camps, the
majority of whom are women and children, who are especially vulnerable to sexual and
gender-based violence, which includes killings, physical, verbal and sexual abuse, neglect,
movement restrictions, child, early and forced marriage, and child labour and trafficking, and
who often lack access to food, education, a livelihood and health care, including mental
health care,
Reiterating its deep concern at the situation of the tens of thousands of individuals
forcibly disappeared and those missing and detained in the Syrian Arab Republic, first and
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See A/HRC/50/68.
See A/76/871-S/2022/493.
See A/HRC/50/68.
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