A/HRC/RES/20/22
1.
Strongly condemns the widespread, systematic and gross violations of human
rights, acts of violence, ongoing atrocities and indiscriminate targeting of civilians by the
Syrian authorities, and also condemns the human rights violations and crimes that members
of the Government-controlled militia Shabbiha continue to commit against the Syrian
people;
2.
Also strongly condemns the continued extrajudicial killings, the killing and
persecution of protestors, human rights defenders and journalists, cases of arbitrary
detention, enforced disappearances, interference with access to medical treatment, torture
and ill-treatment, and condemns in particular the targeted killing of children and the fact
that children have been subject to arbitrary arrest, detention, torture and ill-treatment,
including sexual violence;
3.
Demands that the Syrian authorities release all persons arbitrarily detained
and immediately allow the access of independent human rights monitors to all detention
facilities, in particular those facilities where torture has been alleged to have occurred;
4.
Deplores the alarming humanitarian and human rights consequences of the
lack of implementation of the six-point plan of the Joint Special Envoy of the United
Nations and the League of Arab States, and calls for the urgent, comprehensive and
immediate implementation by all sides of all its elements without any preconditions and in
the sequence prescribed by the plan;
5.
Reiterates its urgent call upon the Syrian authorities to put an immediate end
to all violence and all human rights violations, and to meet its responsibility to protect the
Syrian population;
6.
Reiterates that all violence in all its forms by all parties must cease;
7.
Demands an immediate end to all attacks against journalists and media
outlets, and also that independent and international media be able to operate in the Syrian
Arab Republic without restrictions, harassment, intimidation or risk to life;
8.
Stresses its support for the aspirations of the people of the Syrian Arab
Republic for a peaceful, democratic and pluralistic society, in which there is no room for
sectarianism or discrimination on ethnic, religious, linguistic or any other grounds, based on
the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental
freedoms;
9.
Urges the Syrian authorities to immediately and fully implement the agreed
humanitarian response plan, including by granting immediate, safe, unimpeded and full
access of humanitarian organizations to all areas of the Syrian Arab Republic;
10.
Invites all relevant United Nations agencies, in particular the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to continue to provide support to Syrian
refugees and their host countries;
11.
Reiterates the importance of bringing to justice those responsible for the
widespread and systematic use of violence against the Syrian people;
12.
Underscores the importance of the recommendation of the commission of
inquiry that the Syrian people, on the basis of broad, inclusive and credible consultations,
should determine, within the framework provided by international law, the process and
mechanisms to achieve reconciliation, truth and accountability for gross violations, as well
as reparations and effective remedies for the victims;
13.
Emphasizes the continued importance of the efforts of the commission of
inquiry to conduct international, transparent, independent and unfettered investigations into
alleged violations of international human rights law with a view to hold to account those
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