A/HRC/RES/21/26
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 October 2012
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-first session
Agenda item 4
Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
21/26.
Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling General Assembly resolutions 66/176 of 19 December 2011, 66/253A of
16 February 2012 and 66/253B of 3 August 2012, Human Rights Council resolutions S16/1 of 29 April 2011, S-17/1 of 23 August 2011, S-18/1 of 2 December 2011, 19/1 of 1
March 2012, 19/22 of 23 March 2012, S-19/1 of 1 June 2012 and 20/22 of 6 July 2012, and
Security Council resolutions 2042 (2012) of 14 April 2012 and 2043 (2012) of 21 April
2012,
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 of 18 June 2007,
Recalling further all resolutions of the League of Arab States relating to the situation
in the Syrian Arab Republic, in particular its resolution 7523 of 5 September 2012, in which
the League expressed its strong condemnation of the continuing violence, murder and
heinous crimes committed by the Syrian authorities and its affiliated militias Shabbiha
against Syrian civilians and the use of heavy weapons, including tanks, artillery and
warplanes in its bombardment of populated neighbourhoods and villages, as well as
arbitrary executions and enforced disappearances, in flagrant violation of human rights and
fundamental freedoms, and called upon the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic to
cease immediately and completely all forms of killing and violence against the Syrian
people,
Recalling resolution 2/4-EX (IS) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation of 15
August 2012 on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, in which the Organization called
for the immediate implementation of the transitional plan and the development of a
peaceful mechanism that would allow the building of a new Syrian State based on pluralism
and a democratic and civilian system, where there would be equality on the basis of law,
citizenship and fundamental freedoms,
GE.12-17637
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its twenty-first session (A/HRC/21/2), chap. I.