A/HRC/RES/49/27 Constitutional Committee, in accordance with all elements of Security Council resolution 2254 (2015), and reaffirms the importance of accountability efforts in the political process and the importance of the full implementation of the women and peace and security agenda pursuant to Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000 in this regard; 4. Welcomes the work and the important role played by the Commission of Inquiry, established by the Human Rights Council in its resolution S-17/1 of 23 August 2011, in supporting essential accountability efforts by investigating all alleged violations and abuses of international human rights law since March 2011 in the Syrian Arab Republic, in order to establish the facts and circumstances and to support efforts to ensure that all perpetrators of abuses and violations, which may include those responsible for crimes against humanity and war crimes, are identified and held accountable, demands that the Syrian authorities cooperate fully with the Council and the Commission of Inquiry by granting the Commission immediate, full and unfettered access throughout the Syrian Arab Republic, and urges all States to cooperate with the Commission in the discharge of its mandate; 5. Reaffirms the importance of establishing and supporting appropriate processes and mechanisms to achieve justice, reconciliation, truth and accountability for violations and abuses of international human rights law and violations of international humanitarian law, and reparations and effective remedies for victims and survivors, in all their diversity, and the prerequisite role that accountability and transitional justice mechanisms, with the meaningful participation of victims and survivors, can play in any effort to bring about a sustainable, inclusive and peaceful conclusion to the conflict, also welcomes in this regard victim-led initiatives on truth and justice, welcomes the significant endeavours of the Commission of Inquiry and the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011, and recalls the authority of the Security Council to refer the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic to the International Criminal Court; 6. Welcomes the progress made in international accountability efforts, and in this regard the judgment in January 2022 in which a regional court in Germany found a former director of the Syrian intelligence service guilty of crimes against humanity and that the Syrian regime had been launching a widespread and systematic attack against its own civilian population since at least the end of April 2011, notes that evidence from the Commission of Inquiry and the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism was used during the investigation and trial, also welcomes efforts by States to investigate conduct in the Syrian Arab Republic and to prosecute crimes committed there, as appropriate, and also the efforts to hold the Syrian Arab Republic to account, encourages States to share relevant information among themselves, as well as with relevant accountability mechanisms, in accordance with their national legislation and international law, and condemns retaliation against those who cooperate with relevant mechanisms; 7. Deeply deplores the fact that the civilian population continues to bear the brunt of the conflict and that civilians, and objects indispensable to their survival, continue to be the targets of deliberate and indiscriminate attacks, including with prohibited weapons and munitions, by all parties to the conflict, notably by the Syrian authorities and its State and non-State allies, expresses deep concern about the number of civilian casualties, including those killed or maimed by landmines, explosive remnants of war and improvised explosive devices, and notes with deep concern the findings of the Commission of Inquiry regarding the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity in this regard; 8. Expresses deep concern in this regard at the recent increase in violence and resulting civilian casualties across the Syrian Arab Republic, notes with concern that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has identified 350,209 killed in the conflict as a minimum verifiable number, from March 2011 to March 2021, emphasizes the importance of such comprehensive, verifiable and transparent records of the casualties of the conflict, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to continue to document and publish civilian deaths and to submit a report thereon to the Human Rights Council at its fiftieth session; 3