A/RES/76/228
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 74 (c)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs
and representatives
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 24 December 2021
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/76/462/Add.3, para. 34)]
76/228.
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, 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 the sovereignty, independence, unity and
territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic and to the principles of the Charter,
and demanding that the Syrian regime meet its responsibility to protect the Syrian
population and to respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of all persons within its
territory and subject to its jurisdiction,
Recalling its resolutions 66/176 of 19 December 2011, 66/253 A of 16 February
2012, 66/253 B of 3 August 2012, 67/183 of 20 December 2012, 67/262 of 15 May
2013, 68/182 of 18 December 2013, 69/189 of 18 December 2014, 70/234 of
23 December 2015, 71/130 of 9 December 2016, 71/203 of 19 December 2016,
71/248 of 21 December 2016, 73/182 of 17 December 2018, 74/169 of 18 December
2019 and 74/262 of 27 December 2019, Human Rights Council resolutions S-16/1 of
29 April 2011, 3 S-17/1 of 23 August 2011, 4 S-18/1 of 2 December 2011, 5 19/1 of
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53),
chap. I.
Ibid.
Ibid., Supplement No. 53B and corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.2 and A/66/53/Add.2/Corr.1), chap. II.
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