A/RES/80/224 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 22 December 2025 Eightieth session Agenda item 71 (c) Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2025 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/80/545, para. 5)] 80/224. Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic The General Assembly, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 and relevant international human rights treaties, including the International Covenants on Human Rights, 2 Reaffirming its strong commitment to full respect for the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic and to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Welcoming the end in December 2024 of the Assad regime, which failed to meet its responsibility to respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of all persons within its jurisdiction, and recalling the findings of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic and other United Nations bodies indicating reasonable grounds that crimes against humanity and war crimes have been committed in Syria, Deploring that the Assad regime had systematically used arbitrary detention, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, including sexual violence and violence against women and girls, enforced disappearances and other detention related abuses, to intimidate, punish and coerce perceived political opponents, dissenting civilians and their family members, in addition to summary executions, extrajudicial killings, the targeting of civilians and the use of chemical weapons, as documented by the Commission of Inquiry and the International, Impartial and _______________ 1 2 Resolution 217 A (III). Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 25-20990 (E) *2520990*