A/HRC/RES/57/21 generations to come, and noting with deep regret the finding of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights that almost one in 13 of those who have died as a result of the conflict was a child,4 Condemning the significant number of reports of abuses against children by the Syrian regime, including the targeting and torturing of children to punish them for their familial relationships, real or assumed, with political dissidents, members of the armed opposition and activist groups and the use of detained children to compel their parents and other relatives associated with opposition fighters to surrender, and noting that more than 5,000 children in the Syrian Arab Republic remain unjustly detained or disappeared by parties to the conflict, Affirming the human right of everyone to education, which is enshrined in, inter alia, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and other relevant international instruments, Strongly condemning the recurring attacks on students, teachers, schools and universities, the military use of educational facilities and the increasing trend of recruitment and use of children in the armed conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, which impair the continued realization of the right to education in conflict situations and cause severe and long-lasting harm to individuals and societies, while noting in this context the efforts aimed at facilitating the continuation of education in the Syrian Arab Republic, Noting with deep concern the findings of the Commission of Inquiry that children have suffered sexual and gender-based violence since the early days of the Syrian conflict, including children as young as 11 years old who were subjected to a range of forms of sexual and gender-based violence in regime detention facilities, and recognizing the profound effect that the conflict has had on children, and in this regard, noting the Commission of Inquiry’s paper of 2020 entitled “‘They have erased the dreams of my children’: children’s rights in the Syrian Arab Republic”,5 Recognizing the need for a coordinated and effective survivor-centred approach in preventing and responding to such violence and abuse and for immediate and nondiscriminatory access to services, such as healthcare and psychosocial support, to be provided to all survivors of such crimes, and underlining the need for effective and gender-sensitive measures to be in place to ensure the safety, confidentiality, privacy and broader protection of survivors and witnesses of sexual violence in accountability processes, Reiterating its deep concern at the situation of the tens of thousands of individuals, including children, who have been forcibly disappeared and those missing and detained in the Syrian Arab Republic, first and foremost by the Syrian regime, calling in this regard for the cooperation of all parties with the newly established Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic, demanding that all parties immediately cease the practices of involuntary or enforced disappearance and kidnapping, in accordance with Security Council resolution 2474 (2019) of 11 June 2019 and applicable international law, and demanding also that all parties to the conflict cease the ongoing use of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and sexual and gender-based violence in places of detention and all related violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law, Recalling the earthquakes of February 2023, reiterating its deepest condolences for the 8.8 million people in the Syrian Arab Republic affected by them, and noting the continued deterioration of the humanitarian situation since then, affecting populations already in vulnerable situations, 4 5 2 See A/HRC/50/68. Available at https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/iici-syria/documentation.