A/RES/72/191
Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic
2013, 10 23/26 of 14 June 2013, 10 24/22 of 27 September 2013, 11 25/23 of 28 March
2014, 12 26/23 of 27 June 2014, 13 27/16 of 25 September 2014, 14 28/20 of 27 March
2015, 15 29/16 of 2 July 2015, 16 30/10 of 1 October 2015, 17 31/17 of 23 March 2016, 18
32/25 of 1 July 2016, 19 33/23 of 30 September 2016, 20 S-25/1 of 21 October 2016, 21
34/26 of 24 March 2017, 22 35/26 of 23 June 2017 23 and 36/20 of 29 September 2017, 24
and Security Council resolutions 2042 (2012) of 14 April 2012, 2043 (2012) of
21 April 2012, 2118 (2013) of 27 September 2013, 2139 (2014) of 22 February 2014,
2165 (2014) of 14 July 2014, 2170 (2014) of 15 August 2014, 2178 (2014) of
24 September 2014, 2191 (2014) of 17 December 2014, 2209 (2015) of 6 March
2015, 2235 (2015) of 7 August 2015, 2258 (2015) of 22 December 2015, 2268 (2016)
of 26 February 2016, 2286 (2016) of 3 May 2016, 2314 (2016) of 31 October 2016,
2319 (2016) of 17 November 2016, 2328 (2016) of 19 December 2016, 2332 (2016)
of 21 December 2016 and 2336 (2016) of 31 December 2016, and the statements by
the President of the Council of 3 August 2011, 25 2 October 2013 26 and 17 August 2015, 27
Strongly condemning the grave deterioration of the human rights situation in the
Syrian Arab Republic, the indiscriminate killing and deliberate targeting of civilians
as such, including those involving the continued indiscriminate use of heavy weapons
and aerial bombardments, which has caused more than 400,000 fatalities, including
the killing of more than 17,000 children, the continued widespread and systematic
gross violations, as well as abuses, of human rights and violations of international
humanitarian law, including by the starvation of civilians as a method of warfare and
the use of chemical weapons, including chlorine gas, sarin and sulfur mustard, which
are prohibited under international humanitarian law, and acts of violence that foment
sectarian tensions by the Syrian authorities against the Syrian population,
Noting with deep concern the culture of impunity for serious violations of
international law and violations and abuses of human rights law committed during the
present conflict, which has provided a fertile ground for further violations and abuses,
Recalling that, amid expressions of popular discontent over restricti ons on the
enjoyment of civil, political, economic and social rights, civilian protests erupted in
Dar’a in March 2011, and noting that the violent oppression of civilian protests by
the Syrian authorities, which later escalated to the direct shelling of c ivilians, fuelled
the escalation of armed violence and violent extremist groups, and terrorist groups,
including so-called ISIL (also known as Da’esh),
__________________
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
2/12
Ibid., chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A and corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1, A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.1 and
A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/70/53), chap. II.
Ibid., chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A (A/70/53/Add.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/71/53), chap. II.
Ibid., chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/71/53/Add.1 and A/71/53/Add.1/Corr.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Supplement No. 53B and corrigendum (A/71/53/Add.2 and A/71/53/Add.2/Corr.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/72/53), chap. II.
Ibid., chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A (A/72/53/Add.1), chap. III.
S/PRST/2011/16; see Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council, 1 August 2011–31 July
2012 (S/INF/67).
S/PRST/2013/15; see Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council, 1 August 2013–31 July
2014 (S/INF/69).
S/PRST/2015/15.
17-23188