A/HRC/RES/49/27 such violence and abuse, calls for immediate and non-discriminatory access to services, such as medical and psychosocial support, to be provided to all victims and survivors of such crimes, and for every effort to be made to ensure justice for those who have suffered as a result of such crimes, including accountability and reparations, and urges all parties to the conflict to respect and protect the full enjoyment by women and girls of their human rights and to heed the recommendations made by the Commission of Inquiry; 16. Urges all parties to immediately respect and protect the full enjoyment by children of all their human rights, to prevent, and to protect children from, all forms of violence, including sexual and gender-based violence, exploitation, violations and abuses, including the unlawful recruitment and use of children in the armed conflict and unlawful attacks on schools, and to ensure that children affected by the conflict receive appropriate assistance, including access to identity documentation, education, justice and health care, including the provision of mental health and psychosocial support, strongly condemns the use of schools for military purposes, and encourages the Commission of Inquiry to continue its investigation and documentation of violations and abuses of the rights of the child; 17. Condemns the targeting of, threats against, and harassment, arrests and murders of, journalists and media workers and civil society activists by the Syrian authorities, as well as by armed groups and terrorist organizations designated by the Security Council; 18. Expresses deep concern that more than 7 million refugees have been forced to flee the Syrian Arab Republic, and that more than 7 million persons have been displaced within it during the course of the conflict, and at reports of demographic and social engineering throughout the country, calls upon all parties to the conflict to immediately cease activities that could cause further displacement, including any activities that may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity, takes note of the recent findings of the Commission of Inquiry that the Syrian Arab Republic does not yet offer a safe and stable environment for the sustainable and dignified return of refugees or for the 7 million persons displaced inside the country, and calls upon the Syrian authorities to protect the human rights of returning refugees and internally displaced persons; 19. Strongly condemns the ongoing terrorist acts and violence committed against civilians by Da’esh, Nusrah Front (also known as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham) and other terrorist organizations designated by the Security Council, and the abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law throughout the conflict, reaffirms that terrorism, including the actions of Da’esh, cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality or civilization, and stresses the importance of the full implementation of Security Council resolution 2170 (2014) of 15 August 2014, and the importance of ensuring accountability for all such abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law; 20. Also strongly condemns the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic, recalls the findings of the Commission of Inquiry and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons fact-finding mission in the Syrian Arab Republic and the Investigation and Identification Team in this regard, including the findings in two recent reports of the fact-finding mission that there were reasonable grounds to believe that sulphur mustard had been used as a chemical weapon in Marea on 1 September 2015 and that chlorine had been used as a chemical weapon in an attack in Kafr Zeita on 1 October 2016, expresses deep concern about the findings of the two reports of the Investigation and Identification Team in which it concluded that there were reasonable grounds to believe that the Syrian Arab Republic had used chemical weapons in Saraqib and Ltamenah, recalls the absolute prohibition of the use of chemical weapons in armed conflict, reiterates its demand that all parties desist immediately from any use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic, expresses its strong conviction that those responsible for the use of chemical weapons must be held accountable, and recalls in this regard decision C-25/DEC.9 of 21 April 2021 of the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction; 21. one year; Decides to extend the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry for a period of 5