Syrian Arab Republic

• Amnesty International 23
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 55
• Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) 1
• Freedom House 36
• Human Rights Watch 23
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) 4
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 4
• International Federation for Human Rights 9
• International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association 1
• International Trade Union Confederation 6
• Minority Rights Group International 8
• Reporters Without Borders 16
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees 3
• UN World Food Programme 1
• United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office 8
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 13
• United States Department of State 58

• Abduction 5
• Access to procedures 2
• Ahwazi 2
• Alawi 6
• Anglican 1
• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arabs 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 32
• Armed forces / Military 7
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 6
• Armenian 1
• Asylum-seekers 9
• Baptist 5
• Bedoon 1
• Border controls 1
• Catholic 8
• Chaldean 4
• Child labour 4
• Child prostitution 3
• Child soldiers 3
• Children's rights 23
• Children-at-risk 15
• Christian 10
• Civil and political rights 4
• Civil war 2
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 4
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 3
• Corruption 10
• Criminal justice 19
• Dalit 1
• Death in custody 4
• Death penalty 13
• Demobilization / Disarmament 4
• Democracy 2
• Deportation / Forcible return 4
• Disabled persons 8
• Disappeared persons 30
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 36
• Domestic violence 1
• Druze 8
• Economic, social and cultural rights 14
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 14
• Equality before the law 4
• Extrajudicial executions 19
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 3
• Forced labour 20
• Forced marriage 5
• Forced relocation 2
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 41
• Freedom of assembly and association 41
• Freedom of conscience 5
• Freedom of expression 129
• Freedom of information 81
• Freedom of movement 25
• Freedom of religion 42
• Freedom of speech 20
• Gender discrimination 29
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Generalized violence 1
• Good governance 2
• Group / Prima facie determination 1
• Honour killings 2
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 4
• Human rights activists 25
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 38
• Human rights monitors 9
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• Immigration Detention 4
• Immigration law 1
• Impunity 11
• Independence of judiciary 4
• Indigenous persons 3
• Internal armed conflict 6
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 11
• International courts and tribunals 1
• International criminal law 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• International protection 2
• Ismaili 5
• Jehovah's Witness 6
• Jew 8
• Kurd 25
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
• Legal representation / Legal aid 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 5
• Maronite 5
• Mennonite 5
• Migrants 4
• Military operations 4
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 3
• Minorities 22
• Minority rights 4
• Mormon 5
• Muslim 8
• Opposition 11
• Orthodox Christian 8
• Palestinian 5
• Peacekeeping 3
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 15
• Persecution of family members 1
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 2
• Police 6
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 5
• Political situation 6
• Polygamy 1
• Pre-trial detention 4
• Prison or detention conditions 10
• Property restitution 3
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 5
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 6
• Protestant 6
• Public health 6
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 3
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 2
• Referendum 2
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee camps 3
• Refugee identity documents 1
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
• Refugees 24
• Rejection at border 1
• Religious discrimination 24
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 12
• Resettlement 1
• Residence permits / Residency 3
• Right to education 3
• Right to employment 8
• Right to food 1
• Right to health 1
• Right to justice 2
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to self-determination 3
• Roma 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 12
• SGBV 27
• Salafi 2
• Sanctions 2
• Security forces 10
• Security situation 5
• Shia 8
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 13
• State of emergency 6
• Stateless persons 9
• Sunni 11
• Terrorism 25
• Threats / Intimidation 1
• Torture 20
• Trafficking in persons 29
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 4
• Urban refugees 1
• Visas 4
• Voluntary repatriation 1
• War crimes 1
• Women's rights 32
• Women-at-risk 13
• Work permits 2
• Yazīdī 5

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• AlertNet - Syria
• Amnesty International - Syria
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Syrian Arab Rep
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Syria
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Syria
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Syria
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Syria
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Syria
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Syrian Arab Republic
• ReliefWeb - Syrian Arab Republic (the)
• Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC)
• UNHCR - Syrian Arab Republic
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Syrian Arab Republic
• United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF)
• United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO)
• United States Department of State - Syria
• Women's Learning Partnership - Claiming Equal Citizenship
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Syria
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Syrian Arab Republic