Prepared in accordance with OHCHR UPR Technical Guidelines for Stakeholders’ Written Submissions
1. Introduction
1. This joint stakeholders’ submission evaluates the human rights situation in Syria since January 2022, with a particular focus on the post-December 2024 transitional period. Grounded in the international law principle of state continuity, this framework treats the transitional government as fully bound by the international obligations of the Syrian state. Consequently, this report addresses the current government’s immediate duty to cease ongoing violations without minimizing or obscuring the systematic, institutionalized rights violations inherited from the former government.
2. To ensure evidentiary integrity, the submission relies on direct ground monitoring and rigorous verification. All unreferenced data, statistics, and cases constitute original, first-hand information documented and verified directly by the submitting organizations. Additionally, Coalition findings were triangulated wherever possible.
3. Finally, this submission anchors its thematic reviews within the accountability mechanisms of the HRC by tracking the implementation of previously supported recommendations from Syria’s prior UPR cycle. To maintain institutional continuity, most recommendations in this submission are designed to directly align with, expand upon, and operationalize those prior commitments.
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