A/RES/78/222
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 December 2023
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 71 (c)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs
and representatives
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2023
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/78/481/Add.3, para. 33)]
78/222.
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 strongly 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,
Deploring the fact that March 2023 marked 12 years since the peaceful uprising
and its brutal repression that led to the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, which
has had and continues to have a devastating impact on civilians, including through
grave violations and abuses of international human rights law and violations of
international humanitarian law,
Strongly condemning the grave human rights situation in the Syrian Arab
Republic, the indiscriminate killing and deliberate targeting of civilians, including
humanitarian workers, including those involving the continued indiscriminate use of
heavy weapons and aerial bombardments, which has caused more than 500,000
fatalities, including the killing of 30,034 children, the continued widespread and
systematic gross violations, as well as abuses, of human rights and violations of
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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